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The phrase "painfully embarrassed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase in any situation where someone experiences strong feelings of embarrassment that are difficult to control or overcome. For example, "I was painfully embarrassed when I slipped and fell in front of the entire class."
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But the point is not belabored; the next few moments find David painfully embarrassed of his Supreme flower pants.
You'd think that Strom would be painfully embarrassed that firefighters had to cut her head out of a truck's exhaust pipe, or the added fact that someone captured the whole thing on video one that's been viewed more than 1.3 million times on a Facebook page called "Truck Rice", and 2.7 million times on another.
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Now Spelman, too, faces painfully embarrassing questions.
They will have proved painfully embarrassing for the Facebook founder who has attempted to draw a line under his Harvard days and be the responsible, but still hoody-wearing, internet executive his investors yearn for him to be.
Every moment is near painfully embarrassing for me to watch, and I'm not even Robbie Williams.
If you want to get a sense of how painfully embarrassing the band Queen can be in the context of an overblown picture about a bunch of costumed dilweeds then be sure to watch the above video.
Elaine Showalter found Yealland's 'Orwellian scenes of mind control painfully embarrassing to contemporary readers' (Showalter, 1987, p. 178).
Finally, perhaps most painfully, they were willfully embarrassed by their former coach.
There was a time when I was embarrassed by my painfully slow pace, but not anymore.
Just right there, in this moment of embarrassing, unhinged, painfully real comic outrage in Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that made Roth famous in 1969, you have the reason why Booker judge Carmen Callil is profoundly wrong to object to Roth getting the International Booker prize – she has withdrawn from the three-person jury over the choice which the other two, male, judges were dead set on.
Probably embarrassed.
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