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embarrassingly

/əmˈbɛɹəsɪŋli/ adverb C2
  1. In an embarrassing manner. · He stumbled embarrassingly about the dance floor.
  2. 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.
  3. Causing embarrassment. · Embarrassingly to me, my companion soon got drunk.
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