"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 mistake = wprawiając w zakłopotanie błąd embarrassing mistake
2. embarrassing gaffe = wprawiając w zakłopotanie gafę embarrassing gaffe
3. embarrassing error = wprawiając w zakłopotanie błąd embarrassing error
4. embarrassing blunder = wprawiając w zakłopotanie błąd embarrassing blunder
5. embarrassing lapse = wprawiając w zakłopotanie błąd embarrassing lapse
  • Some city agencies have also turned to technology to make their operations more open to scrutiny, and safeguard against embarrassing lapses.
  • The White House and the F.B.I. blamed each other last week for the embarrassing lapse.
  • It was an embarrassing lapse for a company whose first business was motorcycles and considers the United States its most important foreign market.
  • And he had thought so even before those embarrassing lapses of memory had set in.
  • The announcement suggested an embarrassing - and potentially scandalous - lapse of security by Georgian officials and the Secret Service.
  • The Mets also had an embarrassing mental lapse on defense.
  • Staff members offstage from the holo pickup cameras could signal their man, giving him necessary cues, so that he did not suffer embarrassing lapses.
  • The State Department, whose decades-old resistance to security measures resulted in embarrassing lapses that involved spies and the thefts of documents, has noticeably stepped up security.
  • And both were inattentive on defense during some embarrassing lapses over the past three games.
  • Many lawmakers had criticized practices at the F.B.I. after a series of embarrassing lapses.
6. embarrassing spectacle = wprawiając w zakłopotanie widowisko embarrassing spectacle
7. embarrassing misstep = wprawiając w zakłopotanie źle postawiony krok embarrassing misstep
8. embarrassing slip = wprawiając w zakłopotanie pomyłkę embarrassing slip
(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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