Embarrassing

Examples

• It quite spoiled my pleasure for that night because it was so very embarrassing and so very ridiculous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Fisher, moreover, had no embarrassing curiosity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I couldn't, it was so embarrassing for me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• That is the subject _we_ think of, and it gives us, from morning to night, enough to think about, without embarrassing our heads concerning others. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The break he set between his last two sentences was quite embarrassing to his hearer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• When you go out to look at my island, I will supply you with a less embarrassing dress—more adapted for walking and climbing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It's too embarrassing now. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The meeting was said to have been embarrassing to both, and the conversation was principally apologetic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She stood so near to one, pressing herself near upon one, in a way that was most embarrassing and oppressive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I went immediately to Mr. Edison and told him of the forgery and the amount of money taken, and in what an embarrassing position we were for the next pay-roll. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From one fruitless care, it was turned away to another care much more intricate, much more embarrassing, and just equally fruitless. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The administration had indeed a most embarrassing problem to solve. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A woman once told me that she had let her son grow up ignorant of his sexual life because a mother should never mention anything 'embarrassing' to her child. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I troubled him with no embarrassing questions on this delicate subject. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Emma was extremely glad to see himbut there was a degree of confusiona number of embarrassing recollections on each side. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The subject is dreadfully embarrassing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My position was so embarrassing in fact that I made several applications during the siege to be relieved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were so many more volunteers than had been called for that the question whom to accept was quite embarrassing to the governor, Richard Yates. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Her two absent cousins, especially Maria, were much in her thoughts on seeing him; but no embarrassing remembrance affected _his_ spirits. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Meade's position afterwards proved embarrassing to me if not to him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But, leaning on the breast-high window, and staring in out of the darkness, they find the visitor extremely embarrassing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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