"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
  • For all its progress since those ugly days when only whites could vote, Mississippi now faces an embarrassing reminder of its worst old instincts.
  • Instead of becoming an embarrassing reminder of our misspent youth, Springsteen has actually made growing up seem cool.
  • The slayings are also an embarrassing reminder that the Communist Party's security apparatus is losing ground against major crime and criminal organizations.
  • There was now no room for me in the showbiz side of the operation, and I was an embarrassing reminder of bad luck.
  • To the scientist, it is an embarrassing reminder of our ignorance about the origin of physical law.
  • The group had escaped arrest and prosecution for decades, an embarrassing reminder of Greece's political inefficacy.
  • But he had become an embarrassing reminder of a past most Americans would just as soon forget.
  • But in the end he was an unwanted guest, an embarrassing reminder of a great adventure that turned rapidly into a bloody conquest.
  • This crisis management is an embarrassing reminder of our reactions to Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
  • They also avoid potentially embarrassing reminders of the intimate early debt to and even blood mingling with Korea.
6. embarrassing admission = wprawiając w zakłopotanie wstęp embarrassing admission
(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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