Definitions
hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
Used in a sentence
“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.”
““Barack Obama wrote the Epstein files? LOL. This is outright embarrassing,” Candace Owens wrote on X.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Awkwardly shameful”12 letters
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