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embarrassingadjective causing embarrassmentan embarrassing failure of memory inauspiciously marked my first appearance as an actor awkward, discomfiting, disconcerting, disturbing, flustering, uncomfortable confusing, difficult, disagreeable, impossible, inconvenient, intolerable, troublesome, unpleasant, unwieldyunsettlingdebasing, degrading, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying agreeable, comfortable, convenient, pleasing to throw into a state of self-conscious distressthe modest young soldiers were embarrassed by the public praise for their heroism abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattling agitating, bothering, chagrining, discomforting, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, putting off, putting out, unhinging, unsettling, upsettingdebasing, degrading, demeaning, humbling, humiliating, queering, shaming calming, comforting, consoling, relieving, soothingbuoying, cheering, emboldening, encouraging, hearteningassuring, reassuring to create difficulty for the work or activity ofa lot of this paperwork is unnecessary and just embarrasses the organization clogging, cramping, encumbering, fettering, hampering, handcuffing, handicapping, hindering, hobbling, hog-tying, holding back, holding up, impeding, inhibiting, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling, short-circuiting, stymieing, trammeling(or trammelling), tying up(or tieing up) balking, checking, constraining, curbing, reining, restrainingbinding, chaining, haltering, leashing, tethering, tying(or tieing)arresting, braking, delaying, retaining, retardingbarricading, blockading, blocking, roadblockingbogging (down), miringchoking, smothering, stifling, strangling, suffocatingbaffling, foiling, frustrating, stumping, thwartingderailing, disrupting, sabotagingmuzzling, repressing, suppressingconfining, hedging (in), hemming (in) cramping one's style, giving a hard time aiding, assisting, facilitating, helping clearing, making way, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingfreeing, liberating, releasing, untying(or untieing)loosening, smoothingencouraging, furthering, promoting to make complex or difficultclaims that the new government regulations will needlessly embarrass the operations of small businesses in the state complexifying, complexing, complicating, entangling, perplexing, sophisticating developing, elaborating, expandingintensifying, magnifyingconfounding, confusing, messing (up), mixing (up), muddlingsnarling, tangling simplifying, streamlining abbreviating, cutting, shorteningeasing, facilitatingdisentangling, straightening (out), unraveling, untanglingoversimplifying in 1778 |