embarrassingly

Example Sentences

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First — and this is embarrassingly practical — I was a child.

From Salon

Even when I was 9, Presley struck me as embarrassingly grandiose and cheesier than Wisconsin.

From The Wall Street Journal

He has previously described the preliminary report into the Air India crash as "woefully inadequate… embarrassingly inadequate".

From BBC

If approach beats avoidance, the next design principle is more counterintuitive: Make the goal small—almost embarrassingly so.

From The Wall Street Journal

The composer struts in during a rehearsal, uncorks an embarrassingly stagey speech about his life and views, and forbids Guthrie from putting his modern spin on the oratorio.

From The Wall Street Journal