"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
  • Indeed, an author talking to rows of empty chairs is an embarrassing commonplace event on the signing circuit these days.
  • And each time the university seemed poised to move forward, some embarrassing event always managed to pull it back.
  • I have stood behind them through all the embarrassing events and boneheaded management decisions of the past 15 years.
  • It is one of the most embarrassing events for the Black Watch, even to this day.
  • This obsession - and one can, I think, rightly call it that - involved me in probably the most embarrassing event of my professional life.
  • Whatever the reasons, the military officials used the embarrassing event as yet another opportunity to lobby for more funds for the shrinking defense forces.
  • There is another embarrassing event on the horizon, one the Knicks cannot avoid.
  • In an interview last month, Mr. Rowe said the summer power failures were among the most embarrassing events of his career.
  • After the embarrassing events in the previous war, English public opinion was unenthusiastic about starting a new one.
  • After a devastating and embarrassing event she decides to step up her game.
3. embarrassing circumstance = wprawiając w zakłopotanie okoliczność embarrassing circumstance
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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