Sentence examples for he was embarrassing from inspiring English sources
A friend said he was embarrassing his fellow Chinese by behaving like a peasant.
Boswell was ridiculed for inserting so much undignified detail into his accounts of life with Dr. Johnson — didn't he know he was embarrassing himself by telling how he clung to Johnson?
Simpson stayed in Busted through four No 1s, two Brit awards and a final show at Wembley at which he was so appallingly under-motivated, his mum found him afterwards and told him he was embarrassing himself.
"I told him he was embarrassing his host, and finally he relented and put on a tie," Mr. Weiss said in 1985 in an interview with Daily News Record, the men's wear publication.
Before I had drunk one drop of the champagne he provided, I had already blurted out: "Mr Sassoon, what was Wilfred Owen like?" Sassoon drew himself up and replied icily, "He was embarrassing.
As dominant as Brown could be on the mound -- and former teammates in Texas and Baltimore were awed by his talent -- many couldn't stand playing with him, believing he was embarrassing them with his antics, that he was violating an unwritten code by openly demonstrating his unhappiness over their performance.
He was embarrassed, he said.
He was embarrassed and apologised.
He was embarrassed, perfectly devoid of vainglory.
