embarrassing problem
Example Sentences
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Back then, the State Department had an embarrassing problem.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
Target’s Twitter account was hacked and used for a bitcoin scam Twitter has an embarrassing problem where people take over verified accounts and then use them to run Bitcoin scams.
From The Verge ● Nov. 14, 2018
“This is an intraparty problem, and it is a seriously embarrassing problem for them,” said Bob Coffin, a former Democratic City Council member from Las Vegas.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2014
MOX is a nuclear fuel invented by governments to address the embarrassing problem of what to do with separated plutonium.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2013
I find it a most delicate and embarrassing problem.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
