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