embarrass

“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

As a place that came of age with the automobile, Los Angeles is a sprawl of freeways with a public transport system that would embarrass any medium-sized European city.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

The only thing keeping him up at night is the thought he might fall over and embarrass himself.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Also, don’t embarrass your friend or shame her daughter by mentioning it to your friend, even in passing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026

She decided that a group of fighting women might embarrass these unhappy men and make them leap into action.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025

“You have to be on the side of, let’s make our no-calls our mistakes. Not the one where you blow the whistle and the replay embarrasses us because there’s nothing there.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

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

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

The lyrics are sardonic: “If I were a shopping center, I’d sure be embarrassed / I know I’d never get a date with some cute little building, like from Paris.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The prosecution put to Spencer that it had appeared to look celebratory, but Spencer told the jury he had been embarrassed and made the gesture after the woman pushed him away.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

An embarrassed Wegner said he had played tennis to "clear my head" but this cut little ice with furious voters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

She must also have been embarrassed and possibly humiliated by her employer behaving like this behind her back.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

There was a low, embarrassed rumbling of “Yes, Principal Wombat” through the students, which was good enough for her.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

The new owners of the stalled Oceanwide project in downtown Los Angeles have agreed to start cleaning up the embarrassing splash of color on the city’s skyline even before they have finished formally acquiring it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Neuroscientist and author Dean Burnett said more people were "more anxious about doing something which could be seen as embarrassing online".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

It would have been embarrassing for them even to be confronted for saying so if anyone bothered to confront them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The embarrassing stories kept landing, and the man in charge of the Pentagon now needs the Justice Department’s help to plug a hole he cannot plug alone.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

I hurry over to tell Apa about how Joon is embarrassing the family.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na