Example sentences for: embarrassingly

How can you use “embarrassingly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The rhythms of the game feel right; the rhythms of the romance feel embarrassingly Harlequin, and the picture drags on for over two hours.

  • His early days in office were marked by embarrassingly thorough diktats aimed at purging French of Anglicisms and frothy tirades against the Deauville festival of American film.

  • (At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)

  • He has erected, at enormous expense, a European-style capital city, Yamoussoukro, in the interior of the country, and furnished it with, among other things, an embarrassingly gauche, oversized Roman Catholic basilica rumored to be larger even than St. Peter's in Vatican City--all this supposedly to serve the spiritual needs of the country's francisized Catholics, who constitute no more than 12% of the country's 11 to 12 million people.

  • I have embarrassingly large conflicts of interest in this story.


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