"embarrassing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "The Office" is instead an exercise in comic austerity; its humor rests entirely on the wincingly embarrassing missteps and vagaries of David and his lackluster staff members.
- Truly embarrassing missteps are unlikely, saysJohn McMillan, an economist at the University of California at San Diego, because other countries have already made them.
- Mostly, they concerned embarrassing missteps or were leaks by whistle-blowers who saw things going wrong and wanted to tell somebody.
- That would turn out to be an embarrassing misstep.
- But his departure is the latest sign that Mr. McGreevey is trying to retool an administration hampered by sagging polls numbers and embarrassing missteps.
- Still, the company has made some embarrassing missteps recently, as in its failure to swiftly respond to consumers' taste for new toothpaste flavors and formulas.
- He suffered some embarrassing missteps with appointees and saw two of his vetoes overridden by the Democratic-controlled Legislature, a record for a first-year Mississippi governor.
- But Acela has had more than its share of embarrassing missteps.
- Of course, MSN was originally the banner for one of Microsoft's most embarrassing missteps, a subscription-based on-line service meant to crush America Online.
- But they said that the failure to disclose the flaw promptly and fix it was an embarrassing misstep for the company.
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