How do you use Embarrassingly in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Embarrassingly meaning
- In an embarrassing manner.
- To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
- Causing embarrassment.
Using Embarrassingly
- The main meaning on this page is: In an embarrassing manner. | To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree. | Causing embarrassment.
- In the example corpus, embarrassingly often appears in combinations such as: an embarrassingly, and embarrassingly, are embarrassingly.
Context around Embarrassingly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Embarrassingly
- In this selection, "embarrassingly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, almost, shot, lost, skimpy, wide and conspicuous stand out and add context to how "embarrassingly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about the embarrassingly evidence impoverished and also lost embarrassingly to the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "embarrassingly" sits close to words such as aas, abaco and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with embarrassingly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We are embarrassingly naive about our corporate overlords. (8 words)
They’ve also lost embarrassingly to the Titans and Packers. (10 words)
Hannah is helpless around the girl she likes — embarrassingly helpless. (10 words)
Mr. Sivasankar’s impending appearance before the NIA at 11 a.m. triggered widespread speculation that the agency might arrest him, a move that could bring the high-profile investigation embarrassingly close to the Chief Minister's Office (CMO). (39 words)
The link between questions of security and cultural ownership has been made embarrassingly conspicuous by the revelation that Higgs had been in charge of the Parthenon marbles in his former role as the keeper of the Greek collections. (38 words)
It was embarrassingly clear that many of those in the hall on the day and indeed in political offices across the country, were in politics for what they could get out of it. (33 words)
I caught a bit the other day, having not seen it for years and, rather embarrassingly, found myself really laughing! (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Instead of embarrassingly skimpy neon shorts or a good old mullet, he's decided a stroll down Marvel memory lane is the way to relive his heydays.
Kevin Na had yanked a tee shot embarrassingly wide left Saturday.
The link between questions of security and cultural ownership has been made embarrassingly conspicuous by the revelation that Higgs had been in charge of the Parthenon marbles in his former role as the keeper of the Greek collections.
They’ve also lost embarrassingly to the Titans and Packers.
This is music to the ears of Chelsea fans, who have just witnessed an embarrassingly abject season, where the players’ work rate was regularly questioned under their various managers.
We are embarrassingly naive about our corporate overlords.
But Chozen not winning Kumiko's heart is a letdown, and it was played off with embarrassingly awkward comedy that made Chozen look foolish.
Hannah is helpless around the girl she likes — embarrassingly helpless.
It was embarrassingly clear that many of those in the hall on the day and indeed in political offices across the country, were in politics for what they could get out of it.
Nay, not just a fan, but an embarrassingly devoted superfan who attends all their games.
A country that afraid of demographic reality must be stunningly, and embarrassingly, insecure and unstable.
During the Giants-Eagles Thursday Night Football game, Jones broke through for what should have been a long 90-yard touchdown run, but he ended up embarrassingly tripping over himself before scoring.
Embarrassingly, in the big house-share I live in, there are three men I’ve been living with for two years whose names I don’t even know.
He talked the talk but backed it up with almost embarrassingly one-sided performances.
I caught a bit the other day, having not seen it for years and, rather embarrassingly, found myself really laughing!
It’s certainly true that at times Sanders has been embarrassingly credulous about communist regimes.
Mr. Sivasankar’s impending appearance before the NIA at 11 a.m. triggered widespread speculation that the agency might arrest him, a move that could bring the high-profile investigation embarrassingly close to the Chief Minister's Office (CMO).
On a whole, the music present in the worse– almost embarrassingly bad at times.
There is not much good to be said about the embarrassingly evidence-impoverished Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) of Jan.
The ridiculously ostentatious house they live in, the hunt for a Mayfair apartment, talk of a condo in the Algarve – it’s all, embarrassingly, obviously too much.
Common combinations with embarrassingly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an embarrassingly 9×
- and embarrassingly 5×
- are embarrassingly 3×
- embarrassingly for 3×
- embarrassingly low 3×
- was embarrassingly 2×
- up embarrassingly 2×
- embarrassingly in 2×
- almost embarrassingly 2×
- embarrassingly one-sided 2×