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Embarrassingly Definition & Meaning

embarrassingly
adverb
  1. causing embarrassment; "the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing"

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What does embarrassingly mean?
causing embarrassment; "the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing"
What part of speech is embarrassingly?
Embarrassingly is an adverb.

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