embarrassing
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An alternative is that civil servants were reluctant to raise the alarm about Mr. Mandelson because Mr. Starmer already had announced the appointment and withdrawing it would have been embarrassing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
“It’s a little embarrassing that in 2026, we have to say this,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said at a news conference Thursday.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
The trial revealed some embarrassing internal communications, including emails from a Live Nation executive who called customers “so stupid” and said the company was “robbing them blind, baby.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
We dislike insecure bellicosity not just because it’s embarrassing, but because it is ineffective.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
I don’t exactly remember it, but all the embarrassing pictures on Mom’s phone was evidence enough.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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