The implication, rather than the meaning, was embarrassingly obvious.

The corruption just shows more garishly on the young, making it embarrassingly obvious that boys they ain't.

This was becoming embarrassingly obvious.

Within weeks of its return to power the duplicity of the National Government's support for sanctions became embarrassingly obvious.

In fact, it was becoming embarrassingly obvious to both of us.

Starkey has never described the dream to her shrink because the players are embarrassingly obvious.

From then on, the way Polder tagged him at each chance, big-eyed and hanging on his every word, seemed embarrassingly obvious.

Once fans at home had access to replays, bad calls by the officials became embarrassingly obvious.

As the supper commenced, he saw signs of that; some were embarrassingly obvious.

TV Guide opined that the foray into radicalism was "embarrassingly obvious," and wouldn't be understood by people who didn't already like activism.