embarrassing
adjective
- cause shame, feeling self consciousness or shame
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/ / /ɪmˈbɛɹ.ə.sɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
- Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.”
““Barack Obama wrote the Epstein files? LOL. This is outright embarrassing,” Candace Owens wrote on X.”
noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
- The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.
“May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.”
verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of embarrass