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Перевод: embarrassing
[прилагательное] смущающий; затруднительный
Тезаурус:
- That would be embarrassing!
- Everyone has faced the embarrassing dilemma of deciding how much extra to give a waiter, hairdresser or taxi-driver.
- At the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool next week, ministers will face a persistent, vociferous and potentially embarrassing lobby by ambulance union representatives.
- Having obliged Eden to make an embarrassing statement in parliament the Russians lost interest in the affair.
- "It's embarrassing when he answers the door to visitors with no trousers on.
- All the more embarrassing, then, that the residence of the High Commissioner, Sir Derek March, was recently burgled and thoroughly looted, despite a British policeman being on duty at the time.
- However I must have played with it for that tool set led to Dad's most embarrassing moment - something which he never ever let me forget.
- Committees of enquiry can be set up ad hoc to look into particular matters, but a government can always prevent one being set up if it fears that the results may be embarrassing, since a majority of the Assemble must vote for their creation.
- The only real criticism came from Melody Maker's The Stud Brothers who dubbed it "really embarrassing" and stamped Gedge, "The most unscrupulous, manipulative, bandwagon-jumping reptile in the history of popular entertainment."
- And it has earned Mr Welch a reputation for arrogance and ruthlessness that he finds embarrassing.
- After six miles and double that number of overtaking vehicles, a car drew up, patiently waiting for my embarrassing clumsy backpacking lurch to catch up with it.
- In other words, two forces operate to raise the problems to be discussed: first, the natural desire to avoid awkward, embarrassing, or unmanageable social situations, situations which challenge the perception of the new role; and second, the almost perverse and in a way contradictory claim to be accepted totally and without reservation.
- In areas where fascism had made a significant challenge its presence was likely to be embarrassing.
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