For Darwin, this estimate was embarrassingly short, although fortunately he did not take it too seriously.

It was one of the two ill-prepared Tigers that had an embarrassingly short outing at the Le Mans 24 hour race the year before.

It fell way short of the target, embarrassingly short.

Two years ago, the Greek economy fell embarrassingly short of the European Union's mimimum standards for membership in the Euro.

It proved an embarrassingly short defense.

In an embarrassingly short period of time, she had plowed through half the stack.

This figures falls embarrassingly short of the £600 million the Government hoped it would save - but there can be no denying it made a difference.

The Member States fall embarrassingly short of the standard when it comes to international aid.

Two years ago, the Greek economy fell embarrassingly short of the minimum standards for the euro.

Without Jimmy, George fails to demonstrate the value of the training shoes to employees at a sneaker store, as his vertical leap is embarrassingly short.