peinlich

Related words

• Peinlichkeit

  Embarrassment

• Betrunkenheit

  Drunkenness

• Trunkenheit

  Drunkenness

• Fehlleistung

  Slip of the tongue, mistake, blunder

• fremdschämen

  To feel secondhand embarrassment

• blamabel

  shameful, disgraceful

• genant

  embarrassing

• Versprecher

  A slip of the tongue is an unintentional error in speech where words or sounds are transposed or mispronounced.

• Blamage

  An embarrassment is an awkward situation or a shameful incident.

• Lachnummer

  Laughingstock

• Fremdscham

  vicarious embarrassment

• Verlegenheit

  Embarrassment is a feeling of unease or discomfort in a social situation.

• Fettnäpfchen

  Blunder

• Feigenblättchen

  Fig leaf

• verlegen

  Embarrassed

• schmutzige Wäsche waschen

  To air dirty laundry

• schmerzhaft

  Painful

• verlegen

  Embarrassed

• schamhaft

  modest, shy, bashful

• Fauxpas

  faux pas

• Eklat

  scandal, controversy

• Gambrinismus

  Drunkenness, excessive beer consumption

• Patsche

  Mess, predicament

• Schmutzwäsche

  Dirty laundry refers to private and often embarrassing information about someone that is made public in order to damage the person.

• bloßstellen

  to expose, to humiliate

• beschämend

  shameful, embarrassing

• Patzer

  blunder, gaffe

Example sentences with “peinlich”

1. Es war mir sehr peinlich, als ich stolperte. (It was very embarrassing for me when I tripped.)

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