"embarrassing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

embarrassing adjetivo

embarrassing + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 53
embarrassing moment • embarrassing question • embarrassing situation • embarrassing loss • embarrassing defeat • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) moment, allegation
Kolokacji: 2
(2) question, problem
Kolokacji: 2
1. embarrassing thing = wprawiając w zakłopotanie rzecz embarrassing thing
2. embarrassing event = wprawiając w zakłopotanie wydarzenie embarrassing event
3. embarrassing circumstance = wprawiając w zakłopotanie okoliczność embarrassing circumstance
  • Osotsapa would also take part but would find the going tough and would crash out in embarrassing circumstances in the group stage.
  • It was a bitterly disappointing time for Mr McLeish - to rise so high and fall so quickly and in such embarrassing circumstances.
  • Jones I met a little later under embarrassing circumstances, for he was engaged in trying to bribe the bedroom steward to swop our cabins.
  • Especially in view of the embarrassing circumstance that his first-born was a girl and not a boy.
  • After this incident, the SS authorities began a secret investigation into the conduct of the army officer who had dared defy them under such embarrassing circumstances.
  • A murder occurs under embarrassing circumstances, and Leonidas forms a motley crew of assistants together in order to track down clues, chase around the town, and solve the mystery.
  • In the morning Dietricht would be dead, the circumstances so embarrassing no one would care to elaborate on them except in whispers.
  • I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it--a most embarrassing circumstance.
  • While Claybourne was phoning the police and bellowing for rapid service, Cranston did the polite thing under these embarrassing circumstances.
  • After Hillary Rodham Clinton had campaigned gamely under embarrassing circumstances, she was given command of the effort.
4. embarrassing affair = wprawiając w zakłopotanie sprawę embarrassing affair
(6) detail, fact, truth
Kolokacji: 3
(11) scandal, accident, mishap
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + embarrassing
Kolokacji: 5
prove embarrassing • find embarrassing • consider embarrassing • avoid embarrassing • become embarrassing
adverbio + embarrassing
Kolokacji: 21
most embarrassing • potentially embarrassing • particularly embarrassing • politically embarrassing • highly embarrassing • ...
embarrassing + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
embarrassing for • embarrassing to • embarrassing in

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