0 to cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable: --
You're embarrassing him with your compliments!
1 to cause someone to feel anxious, ashamed, or uncomfortable: --
Truncal sympathectomy: 72% of patients, moderate 22%, embarrassing 46%, and disabling 4%.
Selective sympathectomy: 71% of patients, moderate 50%, embarrassing 21%.
A somewhat clinical, earnest, tight-lipped, almost embarrassed, tone often characterizes their discourse on this topic.
What is it about our embarrassing friend that makes him so hard to spell?
When you get older it is embarrassing because people are staring at you.
The phrase looks nice on the page but, coming on the heels of that shibboleth second foot, proves delicately embarrassing to say aloud.
Unfortunately, the conditions in which we live actively embarrass efforts to provide such theory.
The author is no less embarrassing about the language of wine-tasting, about which he has an undue amount to say.
