Example sentences for: embarrassingly

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The ex-Beatle's symphony gets a Carnegie Hall debut and tops Billboard 's classical chart, but critics dismiss it as embarrassingly amateurish.

  • This has been a very long discussion to make a point that is embarrassingly simple: The LSC subsidy neither prevents anyone from speaking nor coerces anyone to change speech, and is indistinguishable in all relevant respects from the subsidy upheld in Rust v.

  • The willowy Thurman looks great in her outfits, but it's ever more apparent that she isn't much of an actress--at least, not a trained one--and her attempts at insouciance are embarrassingly arch.


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