Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an embarrassing manner; so as to embarrass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
embarrassing manner. - adverb To the point of
embarrassment ; to an extreme or bewildering degree. - adverb Causing embarrassment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb causing embarrassment
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Examples
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Lots of genes turn up, but they still explain embarrassingly little.
The Failed Promise of Genomics Matt Ridley 2010
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I remain embarrassingly weak in the face of Remy Zero's "Somebody Save Me", which apparently short-circuits any real brain function and cuts directly to the repository of Goopy Teenage Angst that lies in wait for that sort of thing.
we're back! pbray 2007
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Came away with tummy nicely full (hope no-one noticed me in embarrassingly close proximity to the mini-pavlovas for much of the evening!) and a heart newly inspired.
Kakiseni at Alexis Sharon Bakar 2005
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Came away with tummy nicely full (hope no-one noticed me in embarrassingly close proximity to the mini-pavlovas for much of the evening!) and a heart newly inspired.
Archive 2005-10-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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Quite a few (almost all?) problems in that domain are what can be called embarrassingly parallel - be it Structural Mechanics, Fluid dynamics, or Virtual Modeling.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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The colors of the film looked amazingly washed out and kind of embarrassingly grey.
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The colors of the film looked amazingly washed out and kind of embarrassingly grey.
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(Side note: using the kind of embarrassingly bad logic that Behe has roped you into, this observation alone proves that Darwinism operates with such blinding speed and efficiency that only the regular intervention by the Intelligent Designer keeps the bacteria from obliterating all multicellular life within a few decades.)
Behe's Test, Take 2 2008
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*** I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added****.
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I should note that this particular nightmare is kind of embarrassingly humorous in retrospect, because the me-devouring monsters in it were obviously to an adult Muppets with the serial numbers rubbed off and huge scary bloody teeth added
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