"embarrassingly" is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that causes embarrassment or shame. Example: The politician's speech was embarrassingly full of contradictions and false promises.
It's embarrassingly safe, in fact – the Conservatives have held this seat without interruption since 1931 and, in two-thirds of the elections since then, have gained more than 50% of the vote.
Which is filled, to my horror, by the embarrassingly audible tsk-tsk-tsk of my iPod earphones, which are still on from my ride over here - and the sound of my conscience clanging as my sin score-sheet tallies up yet another brazen lie... OK, I admit it.
Replacing her with Pym would embarrassingly make the crack cabal all-male, which increases the likelihood that tyro news and current affairs boss James Harding – who was at the FT and then business editor of the Times, before becoming the latter's editor – will look to the broadsheets (or possibly other broadcasters) in the hope of finding a woman.
As it is, the Opt Out website contains no information beyond vague and unsubstantiated claims about Obamacare being a "bad deal", and two embarrassingly poorly made ads featuring a "Creepy Uncle Sam" character who pops up between a woman's legs as she undergoes a gynaecological exam and asks a young man to roll over while he pulls on a surgical glove.
As worryingly, Forest were second-best to a well-organised, confident and physically dominant Sheffield Wednesday from the start, and at times in the second half, almost embarrassingly so.
Yet we still have, as a research community, an embarrassingly large amount to learn.
The decision to focus on what's "on trend" at the time of conception can make a film seem embarrassingly dated when people finally get to see it, let alone when they stumble upon it years later.
Invitations to him to speak all over the Soviet Union arrived in embarrassingly large numbers.
He is a wilfully disillusioned adman, pathetic and admirable in equal part, who whacks off in the shower (the day goes downhill from then on), blackmails his boss when he is sacked and embarrassingly drools over his daughter's best friend.
Here it is just me and my daydreams, which are embarrassingly transparent.
However, even Mr Pitt's one-time Republican backers in Congress now seem to admit that he is embarrassingly inept.
