Sentence examples for embarrassing mistake from inspiring English sources
Downing Street today admitted another embarrassing mistake involving correspondence with the families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan when it confirmed that three letters of condolence sent by Gordon Brown had arrived months late.
In March, a Washington Post columnist obliged with: "hard intelligence to support the Baghdad-bin Laden connection is somewhere between 'slim' and 'none.' " In April, Newsweek headlined: "A spy story tying Saddam to 9-11 is looking very flimsy," and its Michael Isikoff wrote: "the much touted 'Prague connection' appears to be an intriguing, but embarrassing, mistake".
It looked like a huge, embarrassing mistake.
OK, blooper means an embarrassing mistake – and being a laughing stock means looking very silly when you were trying to be serious.
He called the trading episode an "embarrassing mistake" and said, "I respect their decision".
Clinton has also come under fire for an "embarrassing mistake" in her announcement to reporters, the Daily Mail says.
Every farce (and this play eventually turns farcical) must have at least one ridiculous misunderstanding to set up the embarrassing mistakes.
Shelley Murphy, an investigative reporter at The Globe who has known Mr. Cullen for almost 40 years and who wrote a book with him, said Mr. Cullen made "embarrassing" mistakes that were unintentional.
Vicente Fox Quesada, the leading opposition presidential candidate, gave a vigorous but level-headed performance on Friday night in a televised debate with two rivals that helped him recover from embarrassing mistakes in his campaign this week.
8 Presidential Debate in Mexico In a televised debate with two rivals, Vicente Fox Quesada, the leading opposition presidential candidate in Mexico, gave a vigorous performance that helped him recover from embarrassing mistakes last week.
Disclosure of personal interest: This affects every journalist, as well as every person in government fearful of getting fired or reprimanded for going to higher-ups with unwelcome news about embarrassing mistakes or outright wrongdoing.
