"embarrassing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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