prove embarrassing
Frequency: 6.58.2 per million words
to turn out to be embarrassing
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Examples (10)
- The politician's old tweets proved embarrassing during the campaign.
- Leaking the internal memo could prove very embarrassing for the company.
- His lack of preparation has proved embarrassing in front of the board members.
- Forgetting my lines on stage proved more embarrassing than I could have ever imagined.
- The decision to invest in that startup proved embarrassing when it went bankrupt a month later.
- The study's flawed methodology ultimately proved embarrassing for the research institute.
- What he thought was a harmless joke proved embarrassing when no one laughed.
- The emerging details of the scandal proved increasingly embarrassing for the government.
- The team's performance in the final match proved embarrassing for their fans.
- His attempt to impress everyone with his dance moves proved deeply embarrassing.