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How to use embarrassingly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word embarrassingly? Here are some examples.

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This now sounds embarrassingly quaint, but many modernists have sought such authority from museums.
What I do know reminds me of the strident sort of PC left-winger who was embarrassingly mockable, and no one with any sense hung out with.
I think all my books are embarrassingly awash with sentimentality and emotion.
Up stepped Beckham, but he slipped horribly at the vital moment of impact and the ball ballooned embarrassingly over the bar.
This a question every musician has been asked, yet it can be embarrassingly difficult to answer.
The military embarrassingly admitted that it did not even know whether supposedly secret information seized from the officer was classified.
That is putting it pretty strongly, and there are admirable exceptions, but it is embarrassingly close to the mark.
Eventually, she requests an audition, but embarrassingly falls flat on her face.
Bennie and Walter play-act in a repetitive chant, as Ruth embarrassingly answers the door to let in George Murchison.
Your proposal is embarrassingly optimistic, like the product of a child's imagination.
Most embarrassingly, Mussina tied a major-league record by allowing six doubles in one inning.
Yet he himself is hardly objective in his analysis and embarrassingly reveals himself as being totally incompetent.
The busy staff were attentive, talkative and to be honest, a bit embarrassingly deferential at times.
Now it looks like an unwanted child still tied embarrassingly to the parent company's apron strings and destined for a future of neglect.
It isn't embarrassingly inept like his last film, but nor is it more distinguished than an average TV movie.
I knew by the time his eyes reached my chest area my face was embarrassingly red.
When that did not happen, there was no Plan B or Plan C in place, and the bowling looked embarrassingly aimless.
They're embarrassingly on the nose and incredibly douchey in their own self-satisfied cleverness.
A woeful shot in acres of space by Mullan at the top of the penalty box was embarrassingly bad.
I also had an almost embarrassingly large wad of cash stuffed into the waistband of my outfit.
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So prolonged was this stare that Blake began to be embarrassingly conscious of it, to fidget under it.
Yet even with these deductions the amount of material is embarrassingly rich.
An embarrassingly long silence followed these words, during which time the two friends looked at each other in a mocking way.
In addition, in an embarrassingly unskillful manner, he enquired about the customer's nationality while on the phone to his assistant.
The Aran Islands and the Blarney Stone may be popular with foreign tourists but embarrassingly around half of us Irish have never been to either of these stunning locations.
I don't want to take things away from Swansea because they were embarrassingly good, the cleverness of all of it and we want to aspire to be like them.
Having said that I would like to express my concerns about the embarrassingly poor way Mr Ainsworth MP is undertaking his role as Secretary of State for Defence.
Finally, fed up with an experiment that had gone so embarrassingly wrong, the scientist threw his clone off the roof of the laboratory and killed him.
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