vergonzoso
shameful ; shy ; discreditable ; self-conscious ; disgusting ; disgraceful ; tongue-tied ; embarrassing ; bashful.
And what I'm trying to suggest is that there's something shameful about a profession that has allowed this kind of blatant and rank ethnocentrism, racism, chauvinism, the whole schmier, to persist this long.
One is the written word, letters to LC, and no one is particularly shy on that score nor should be.
It is at least arguable that the discreditable popular image is to some extent a reflection of his own self-image, and that the sad irony of the librarian is that people have come to accept him at his own valuation.
The girls were wary, nervously self-conscious, quite unable to behave in a natural and relaxed way.
I find it disgusting but I guess that's human nature.
He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.
The picture he presents is of an intelligent, well-meaning, but tongue-tied monarch, whom he dubs Louis the silent.
This is highly embarrassing for the innocent reader and for the apologetic library staff.
The book follows Philip's development from a bashful teenager to a more self-assured, but tortured, adult, and finally to a pathetic old man, who often suffered from long bouts of debilitating depression.
de un modo vergonzoso
shamefully
He maintains that indexers are shamefully treated, their pay is disgraceful and they are almost never acknowledged in the book.
fracaso vergonzoso
embarrassing failure
Others have said that the painting lacks proportion, perspective, a sense of decorum and that it has been 'an embarrassing failure'.
ser vergonzoso
be embarrassing
It was equally embarrassing to see her behave in such an obsequious manner.
