Word: embarrassingly
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...illegible towards teatime . . . A few very stiff drinks later, we looked at the list and realised we'd forgotten the Foreign Office, so M. had to ring a little shopwalker figure called Mr. Major who not surprisingly couldn't believe his luck and will no doubt continue to embarrass us in the councils of the nations for many moons to come...
...little later, as soon as the insurance companies know who the survivors are, they will dispatch a team of investigators to find out your financial situation, whom you're sleeping with and the status of your married life. Then they'll use this evidence to try to intimidate and embarrass you in court." Following the 1985 crash in Dallas, Delta was criticized for prying into the lives of passengers during litigation. After investigators found that one victim was homosexual, insurance lawyers raised the issue of whether his life expectancy would have been cut short because of AIDS...
...more rumors. Some L.D.P. sources swore that Uno and his Cabinet would resign within a week. That sounded overly dramatic, but Uno's dithering had created severe uncertainty. The timing is especially bad: it would embarrass the party and the nation if a new Prime Minister had to be picked before the summit of major industrial nations in Paris July 14-17. On July 23 the L.D.P. faces an election for half the 252 seats of the Upper House of the Diet. Uno may soon have more than four woes to worry about...
...investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
...irresponsible style with which this issue was presented, the ignorance of relevant information, and the inability of the council to follow its own rules simply embarrass an organization which claims to represent students...