embarrassingly
About 0.26 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In an embarrassing manner.
He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
- adverb To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
- adverb Causing embarrassment.
Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
Similar words
shamefully disgracefully awfully dreadfully terribly grossly distressingly worryingly frightfully alarmingly
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