"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 information = wprawiając w zakłopotanie informacje embarrassing information
2. embarrassing story = wprawiając w zakłopotanie historię embarrassing story
3. embarrassing secret = wprawiając w zakłopotanie tajemnicę embarrassing secret
4. embarrassing publicity = wprawiając w zakłopotanie rozgłos embarrassing publicity
5. embarrassing reminder = wprawiając w zakłopotanie przypomnienie embarrassing reminder
6. embarrassing admission = wprawiając w zakłopotanie wstęp embarrassing admission
  • In an embarrassing admission shortly before the election, officials acknowledged the state had overdrawn an account at the Bank of Boston by as much as $190 million.
  • It was an embarrassing admission for a man who sold himself as someone who could quickly grasp a situation and give the right advice.
  • An embarrassing admission is something that nothing can cushion.
  • Suddenly, he realized how this embarrassing admission might affect his reputation.
  • An embarrassing admission perhaps, but I have only met Charlie Whelan on the one occasion.
  • Never heard of him, one of those embarrassing admissions the best of diarists have to make at times.
  • The incident led to a North Korean propaganda victory after the Army was forced to make embarrassing admissions to secure Dodd's release.
  • Inspired by loyalty though it was, he could hardly have made a more embarrassing admission that he was a 'guinea pig'.
  • Before making the embarrassing admission to the headwaiter, however, she spotted Mr. Kashy, who was seated at the bar.
  • Is there a more embarrassing admission one can make?
(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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