embarrassingly
advUK /ɪmˈbæɹəsɪŋli/ · US /əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/
Etymology From embarrassing + -ly.
1
In an embarrassing manner.
- He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
2
To the point of embarrassment; to an extreme or bewildering degree.
- He soon became not merely tipsy, but embarrassingly drunk.
- He was presented with an embarrassingly long list of options.
1 more example
- This is the first Christmas, her mother reports, that Shirley Temple has been sure there isn’t a real Santa Claus. Last season she was embarrassingly curious about the numerous Messrs. Claus she saw on the streets and in department stores.1938 December 20, Paul Harrison, “Harrison in Hollywood: The Movie Folk Will Leave Town Come Christmas Week-End, and All”, in The Harlan Daily Enterprise, volume 37, number 300, Harlan, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 8:
3
Causing embarrassment.
- Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
- Derived terms
- embarrassingly parallel