Sentence examples for embarrassing quarrel from inspiring English sources

He set out to mediate an embarrassing quarrel between two young and arrogant noblemen, the counts Albrecht and Gebhard of Mansfeld.

But it highlights the real risks in a diplomatic quarrel that is usually seen as somewhere on the spectrum between amusing, embarrassing and mildly alarming like watching a dinner-party tiff as it threatens to turn into fisticuffs.

If, for instance, we assume for a minute that they have reason to believe the French deliberately picked a quarrel with Prussia, they can neither express such a belief nor state its grounds without embarrassing extremely the diplomatic intercourse with the French empire, and giving the French people ground to suspect that our neutrality may easily be changed into hostility.

Probably embarrassing.

Bit embarrassing.

Or embarrassing.

"So embarrassing.

Nothing embarrassing.

Nevertheless: embarrassing.

Mildly embarrassing.

Truly embarrassing.