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embarrassing

 adjective
     
em‧bar‧ras‧sing
making you feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable:
She asked a lot of embarrassing questions.
embarrassing for
This incident is deeply embarrassing for the government.
—embarrassingly adverb:
an embarrassingly poor performance
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