More painfully embarrassing, though, he left three others under his own power, having been yanked by his coach.

Even such mundane information as which diapers work best and where to buy them at a good price is helpful to men struggling for the first time with a problem that most find painfully embarrassing.

But at my 25th high school reunion recently, a former football player hurled this painfully embarrassing incident at me out of nowhere as we chatted about his work.

Itai here means "painful", which can be interpreted as "painfully embarrassing" or "painful for the wallet" due to the high costs involved.

Mary's attempts to be familiar with her when Philip wasn't there had been painfully embarrassing.

For some, cab driving is a painfully embarrassing fall from grace.

We are becoming involved in painfully embarrassing international conflicts with our neighbors to the south; we blame them for profiting from our nation's social ills.

They were all pieces of wartime propaganda, officially approved and encouraged, that would still prove painfully embarrassing to their producers just a few years after.

The whole thing was painfully embarrassing for a second-string riser like Anthony Thomas Quaso.