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embarrass
(redirected from embarrassedly)

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embarrass someone about someone or something
to make someone feel bad or ashamed about someone or something. Please don't embarrass me by mentioning my mistake again. There is no need to embarrass her about her unfortunate sister.

embarrass someone into doing something

to shame someone into doing something. They tried to embarrass me into doing it, but I resisted. Juan tried to embarrass Fred into going home early.
See also: doing

embarrass someone with something

to use something to make someone feel bad or ashamed. Please don't embarrass me with that old story again. Maria embarrassed Henry with a reminder of what had happened.

financially embarrassed

Euph. broke. I'm a bit financially embarrassed at the moment. Gary found himself financially embarrassed when the time came to pay the bill.


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This complicated, twisting story follows Milo and Alex as they seek to find who brutally killed Lauren Teague, a troubled teen who Alex had tried to treat ten years before, then viewed as an erotic dancer (and embarrassedly recognized) at a stag party.
ALLAN GREENSPAN'S DESERTION of deficit reduction, which he later embarrassedly repudiated, reminds me of how those conservative Supreme Court justices deserted their states' rights and judicial restraint principles in the Florida vote case.
At least one gay man on the Shadows set embarrassedly confesses he gets completely turned on when she's near.
 
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