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- adverb In an
embarrassed manner.
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Examples
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Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback.
Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson 2011
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I hated the part where I had to quickly rein myself in, because my husband was looking at me, embarrassedly, making excuses to the horrified gate attendant.
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: The Secret Behind THE SECRET: Who Gets to Tell Your Story? Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010
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But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it.
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But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it.
The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar 2010
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But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it.
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But instead of noting this as evidence against the made-up preposition-proscription, she embarrassedly apologized for it.
The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Whitaker laughs heartily, and while she struggles up, babbling and embarrassedly scolding the GI who dropped her, everyone giggles and looks at one another as if to say how happy they all are to be there together.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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Whitaker laughs heartily, and while she struggles up, babbling and embarrassedly scolding the GI who dropped her, everyone giggles and looks at one another as if to say how happy they all are to be there together.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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His bag of casting tricks, which he looks back on somewhat embarrassedly as useless "hotdogging," included a move where he would knock the cigarette out of a woman's mouth with the fly line from about 60 feet.
The Big Catch: Fly-fishing guru 'Lefty' Kreh of Maryland is still making a splash 2010
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Almost embarrassedly, Scotland Yard tried to fluff up the dying story on Wednesday with the pseudo-revelation that one of the bombs might have been intended to go off as a cargo plane flew over an East Coast U.S. city on Oct. 29.
Al Qaeda Discovers the Mail Bomb Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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