"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
  • After their initially embarrassing encounter, he tries to help her return to the castle by hiding her in his bass case.
  • We could probably succeed in that, but it hardly mattered, for they would remain the clear victors in this embarrassing encounter.
  • A series of embarrassing encounters with English visitors, or Frenchmen he had known in better days, further damaged his spirit.
  • The stories deal with themes such as the author's views on women, drinking (often to excess), insulting people, and embarrassing sexual encounters.
  • That's one of the drawbacks of rereading: it involves a face-to-face confrontation with an earlier you, which can be a highly embarrassing encounter.
  • Shouldn't the establishment be laid out so that embarrassing late-night encounters are unavoidable and quick escapes an impossibility?
  • An embarrassing encounter at the pub follows, with all three of them keeping up appearances and being polite and reserved.
  • Besides, he wanted to give Beth time to leave the casino without another embarrassing encounter.
  • Vic assumed the passageway might be an exit club members used to avoid possible embarrassing encounters at the front entrance.
  • How can I take advantage of the half-price senior fare when I ride the bus without an embarrassing encounter with the driver?
5. embarrassing confrontation = wprawiając w zakłopotanie konfrontację embarrassing confrontation
(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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