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embarrassing

adjective

1 embarrassing

Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment:
— Awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion.

synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable.

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; ... show more

Polish: niezręczny

2 embarrassing

Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation:
— The embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles.

synonym: mortifying.


Moby thesaurus: awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, chastening, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, distressing, disturbing, enigmatic, humbling, humiliating, humiliative, intricate, mortifying ... show more.

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