embarrassingly.
In an embarrassing manner.
Meaning & usage
In an embarrassing manner.
He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
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.
Causing embarrassment.
Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English embarrassing Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English embarrassingly From embarrassing + -ly.
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