Embarrassing: alternatives and connections

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

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Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

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Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement…

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of Mortify

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Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.