The great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : His bad table manners embarrassed her. ,The motion was advanced in order to embarrass the progress of the bill. ,The decline in sales embarrassed the company. From Dictionary.com.
Lots of genes turn up, but they still explain embarrassingly little. From Wordnik.com. [The Failed Promise of Genomics] Reference
It's kind of embarrassingly personal but I'll write it anyway. From Wordnik.com. [sheepdip Diary Entry] Reference
The colors of the film looked amazingly washed out and kind of embarrassingly grey. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Center of the Earth « Skid Roche] Reference
Ms Griffith said she then had to "embarrassingly" ask the head teacher for permission to take the cat home. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
It was giving me an almost embarrassingly free hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
COOPER: Well, it is embarrassingly cold in Minnesota. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2005] Reference
There are a few names, but the pool is embarrassingly small. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Reporter's Notebook: Who Will the V.P. Choices Be? - July 22, 2000] Reference
Their humiliation can make for some embarrassingly funny stuff. From Wordnik.com. [The New Reality] Reference
They say "I get embarrassingly excited when the five of us are in a room.". From Wordnik.com. [Top 10 albums of the autumn] Reference
"At first it seemed like an embarrassingly tiny amount of exercise," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Get Physical] Reference
And he became a-- a bed-wetter for a long time -- an embarrassingly long time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2009] Reference
I'd ask my spouse embarrassingly leading questions: "Do you think you have a black son?". From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Just Black and White] Reference
Seward became unusually friendly, even embarrassingly so, for in August he virtually forced. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
One thing was embarrassingly plain: how little influence outsiders have on the main players. From Wordnik.com. ['Devil In The Driver's Seat'] Reference
It wasn't exactly must-see political tv, but neither was it an embarrassingly fuzzy gab-fest. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama on The View - as it happened] Reference
And even Joan Baez's embarrassingly overenthusiastic harmonies can't ruin "The Water Is Wide.". From Wordnik.com. [Music: Tangled Up In Bob] Reference
(Even Steven Soderbergh swung wildly at the surreal and missed, embarrassingly so, in "Schizopolis."). From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: Iran's Newest Wave] Reference
JON STEWART: Not only do I want an elite president, I want someone who's embarrassingly superior to me. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2008] Reference
ANDERSON: Appeared in embarrassingly incoherent viral home videos and become a bull ` s eye tabloid target. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2006] Reference
The man who keeps track of thousands of journalistic blunders and why some of them are embarrassingly funny. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2007] Reference
And that approach got her into trouble -- most embarrassingly, during the U.N. World Conference Against Racism. From Wordnik.com. [One Conscience, 189 Countries] Reference
And yet Brock became -- embarrassingly for the rest of us -- pivotal in the recent political life of this country. From Wordnik.com. [From Cold War To Steamy Sex] Reference
An embarrassingly public search for a constituency she could easily win produced a wave of negative press coverage. From Wordnik.com. [All Over But The Voting?] Reference
The day before the European single currency had plunged cleanly, and embarrassingly, through parity with the dollar. From Wordnik.com. [So Buy Euros, Please] Reference
Both the composition of fashion runways and Congress are embarrassingly inconsistent with the diversity of our country. From Wordnik.com. [Sara Haile-Mariam: 'Essence' Controversy Shows Just How Far We Have to Go In a Conversation About Race] Reference
Conway will need to use the debates to find some clever way to force Paul to state some embarrassingly extreme position. From Wordnik.com. [Rand Paul hits a hazard] Reference
Either Bennet was embarrassingly incompetent in sending Denver taxpayers and schoolchildren into the jaws of Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [David Sirota: NYT: Bennet Helped Future Wall Street Donors Fleece Denver Schools] Reference
Yesterday, on the Booker Prize's Web site, it was mistakenly -- and embarrassingly -- announced that Martel had already won. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes On The Prize] Reference
He may have to face one or more rivals in the election for general secretary, and his winning margin could be embarrassingly small. From Wordnik.com. [Someone's Last Hurrah] Reference
Last March, the relationship became embarrassingly public, with charges that Israel had given China U.S. Patriot missile technology. From Wordnik.com. [Sneaking In The Scuds] Reference
Executives of the firms involved remain defiant in their denials -- embarrassingly so, in fact: they have to be muscled from office. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Game Rigged?] Reference
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