embarrassing

Château-Renaud and Beauchamp looked at each other; the impression was the same on both of them, and the tone in which Morcerf had just expressed his thanks was so determined that the position would have become embarrassing for all if the conversation had continued.

Noirtier, had so much astonished everyone, that the position of Madame de Villefort, left alone with the notary and the witnesses, became every moment more embarrassing.

“Are we not going?” said he, after this embarrassing silence.

To him, throwing something away because it had stopped working was not merely wasteful but faintly embarrassing, an admission that you had given up without a fight.