embarrassing

adjective

1 he was frightened of making an embarrassing mistake:

shaming, shameful, humiliating, mortifying, demeaning, degrading, ignominious;

upsetting, disconcerting, discomfiting, discomposing, confusing, flustering, agitating, discountenancing, distressing;

discreditable, dishonoring, disgraceful;

informal blush-making, cringey.

2 there may be some embarrassing questions at the shareholders' meeting:

awkward, uncomfortable, difficult, tricky, delicate, sensitive, problematic, troublesome, thorny, knotty, vexatious, ticklish;

compromising, humiliating;

informal sticky, dicey, hairy, cringeworthy, cringe-making, cringey;

British, informal dodgy.