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embarrassing problem
noun as in sticky wicket
Example Sentences
A series of pictures have shown a slightly embarrassing problem with MLB’s new look: At least a handful of teams have white pants that are relatively see-through, making for some less-than-ideal pictures.
Toyota said it has halted the global shipments of 10 vehicles after it discovered that an affiliate had mishandled the testing of diesel engines used in the automobiles, the latest embarrassing problem to hit the world’s biggest automaker in recent months.
Back then, the State Department had an embarrassing problem.
But homeless people don’t normally have $20,000 lying around to make an embarrassing problem go away.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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