ppl. a. [f. EMBARRASS + -ING2.] That embarrasses.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 537. The general question of amputation … is found in practice difficult and embarrassing.
1849. Prescott, Peru (1850), II. 46. This was an embarrassing situation for the Spaniards.
1853. Grote, Greece, II. lxxxvii. XI. 357. An attack … amidst embarrassing woods and rocks.
