embarrassingly

American  

[em-bar-uhs-ing-lee] / ɛmˈbær əs ɪŋ li /

adverb

1. in a way or to a degree that embarrasses, especially by causing confusion, shame, or anxiety.

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Example Sentences

Kate Wolf, writer and editor: Though I have been going to Taix for nearly 20 years, embarrassingly, it was only in the last year that I realized the building wasn’t from the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times

He has embarrassingly conflated Iraq and Iran, and backpedaled on whether the U.S. is at war, but he has never shied away from a cable news hit.

From Salon

So, embarrassingly, Manchester United lost against 10 men for the second time in just over three months.

From BBC

First — and this is embarrassingly practical — I was a child.

From Salon

Even when I was 9, Presley struck me as embarrassingly grandiose and cheesier than Wisconsin.

From The Wall Street Journal