embarrassing situation

collocation in English

meaningsofembarrassingandsituation

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embarrassing
adjective
uk
/ɪmˈbær.ə.sɪŋ/us
/ɪmˈber.ə.sɪŋ/
making you ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofembarrassingandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This passage seems to be definitive testimony to the anthyphairetic definition of proportion, which resolved theembarrassingsituationof the lack of definition.
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He is then to be asked to return it—a veryembarrassingsituationfor many people.
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We are, therefore, in an acutelyembarrassingsituationwith the authorities for next year.
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That is why it makes it such anembarrassingsituation.
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In my view that would be an improvement and would be a lessembarrassingsituation.
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Thus, anembarrassingsituationwill be created for insurance companies and investment trusts.
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However, that might have been anembarrassingsituationfor her.
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It would be a mostembarrassingsituationfor him and, almost whatever he did, he would be accused of doing the wrong thing.
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Employees may be offended and the employer could be placed in anembarrassingsituation.
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It is a mostembarrassingsituationfor them.
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There is the possibility, too, that a further somewhatembarrassingsituationmay arise.
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Otherwise, of course, a mostembarrassingsituationmight have arisen.
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Has not he put the employers into a ludicrous andembarrassingsituation?
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At times auditors have been in anembarrassingsituation.
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If illegal action is taken, we always start off on the receiving end of anembarrassingsituation.
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They have been put in anembarrassingsituation.
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I do not want to put him in anembarrassingsituation.
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Many companies are placed in an extremelyembarrassingsituationover the application of the controls on prices.
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He is, of course, in a difficult andembarrassingsituation.
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It has proved very difficult to gain any evidence, because people find themselves in such anembarrassingsituation.
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