embarrass

Beneath that story on the front page, a cartoon of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor reading Earl Spencer's book shows the former prince asking "how dare he embarrass the King! That's my job!"

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

This clearly sounds like a blazing hot take that will chill soon and embarrass often.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

That does not just embarrass the network, it threatens the corporation itself.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

“In a Charley Chase film life often seems like a stream of unfortunate coincidences designed primarily to embarrass, incriminate, or otherwise inconvenience Chase in his bid to be a good solid citizen.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Mrs. Hayward just read it to embarrass me. She hates my guts.”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

I guess he is about 80, but the answer he gives embarrasses me.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

Nothing embarrasses Bella Baxter, the toddler-brained dervish of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

"The seizure of envelopes with money in the office of a person I chose hurts me... embarrasses me before the Portuguese and I have a duty to apologise," Costa said.

From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2023

“As a Nebraskan, it embarrasses me,” Wynn wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

That’s part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

There is a Utah accent — it was something I was embarrassed by when I was younger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Sometimes, people can feel embarrassed in the moment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

You replay conversations worried you offended someone, embarrassed yourself, or both.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Starters this decade have averaged less than 4 ⅔ innings and about 74 pitches per game in the postseason, an outing that would have embarrassed their predecessors from generations ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

He was embarrassed about Teddy pushing him, but mostly he was sad.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

I also connected my personal Gmail account with “read only” access: It could see emails but couldn’t delete them or shoot off embarrassing notes to my entire address book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Carroll testified in court, a process he says was "humiliating and embarrassing and absolutely horrendous".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The winless Buccaneers are better than their start, and they should have a bounce back at home after an embarrassing loss to Cleveland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The list of failed enterprises bearing his family moniker is as long as it is embarrassing.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

And I did not cry—because it’s way embarrassing to cry in the middle of your science classroom.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller