"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
(6) detail, fact, truth
Kolokacji: 3
1. embarrassing revelation = wprawiając w zakłopotanie ujawnienie embarrassing revelation
2. embarrassing disclosure = wprawiając w zakłopotanie ujawnienie embarrassing disclosure
3. embarrassing display = wprawiając w zakłopotanie wystawę embarrassing display
4. embarrassing encounter = wprawiając w zakłopotanie spotkanie embarrassing encounter
5. embarrassing confrontation = wprawiając w zakłopotanie konfrontację embarrassing confrontation
  • But an even more embarrassing confrontation with the public came in July with government's draft plans to dismantle the entire planning system.
  • And we'd like to avoid, you know, any embarrassing confrontations?
  • Nevertheless, the potential for embarrassing or explosive confrontations between protesters and the administration is increasing as the start of the convention looms closer without final arrangements being set.
  • By obtaining a copy of the rules and studying them in advance, visitors learn to avoid embarrassing confrontations with condo commandos.
  • He was about to cross the room, to head off what he knew would be an embarrassing and confusing confrontation, when he felt a touch on his sleeve.
  • Machen said Zook's undoing resulted from his team's on-field troubles, not from an embarrassing confrontation Sept. 16 at a fraternity house.
  • If she went on, there might be an embarrassing confrontation.
  • Japanese power brokers also recognized the drumbeat and moved quickly to pre-empt an embarrassing confrontation during the Bush visit.
  • There was surely an embarrassing confrontation in the air.
  • However it wasn't until an embarrassing confrontation with my (understanding) neighbours about their burglar alarm that I solved the mystery of the over-wintering tadpoles.
(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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