Cutting
Cutting adjective - Causing intense discomfort to one's skin.
Embarrassing and cutting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Embarrassing" instead an adjective "Cutting".
Embarrassing
Embarrassing adjective - Causing embarrassment.
Cutting and embarrassing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cutting" instead an adjective "Embarrassing".
Both words in one sentence
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Cutting the Knot: Unable to immediately figure out how to delete an embarrassing photo from her sister's smartphone, Akane immediately decides to destroy it instead.
Source: Visual Novel / Walkure Romanze - According to her, in school she got revenge on her classmates for embarrassing her by cutting the brakes of the bus they were on for a field trip.
- Cutting the corners on army contracts is known at least since the time of Xerxes, so dying for lack of a working acceptance board would be embarrassing.
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