Translation for 'to embarrass' from English to Russian

to embarrass sb.

смущать [несов.] [приводить в замешательство]

to embarrass

поставить в неловкое положение

• A 2002 book suggests the jewels were stolen as a Unionist plot to embarrass the Liberal government, and later secretly returned to the Royal Family.
• Sometimes, motions of no confidence are proposed even though they have no likelihood of passage simply to pressure a government or to embarrass its own critics, who may for political reasons decide not to vote against it.
• Arnold Schoenberg, in his 1950 essay on Bach, suggested that the "Thema Regium" was created by Bach's son, Carl Phillip Emanuel, on the orders of the king, as a well-prepared trap to embarrass J.
• Harris tried investigative journalism next but quit after realizing he did not like to embarrass people.
• This "passive cover-up" is often justified by the motive of not wanting to embarrass the culprit or expose them to criminal prosecution or even the belief that the cover-up is justified by protecting the greater community from scandal.

• Daisy in turns dates both of them but this fact does not prevent the two competing suitors from attempting to earn more of her affection or trying to embarrass each other in front of her.
• His pranks are usually meant to embarrass his victims rather than physically hurt them.
• Meanwhile, the Abwehr and the German Army want to embarrass the SS and to recover William's stolen atomic research.
• Poles used for public ridicule are usually called shame poles, and were created to embarrass individuals or groups for their unpaid debts or when they did something wrong.
• had obviously been chosen to embarrass Israel rather than out of any concern with legal precision".

• The captors' motives were to force the cancellation of the race in an attempt to embarrass the Batista regime.
• may be used as a joke or to embarrass an audience, because any answer a person could give would imply more information than he was willing to affirm.
• Camden's support for the tax proposals would return to embarrass him.
• Her argument was that while the genocide deserved recognition, it was not a good time to embarrass Turkey, given that country's role in moderating extremism in the Middle East.
• The Triforce has been used as a shibboleth and a meme to embarrass newer users of the imageboard website 4chan.

• Edward Jay Epstein describes that the CIA understood that the KGB used "provocations", or fake defections, as a trick to embarrass Western intelligence and establish Soviet double agents.
• China's new leadership team of general secretary Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao may have decided to make an example of Zhou to embarrass Jiang Zemin's associates.
• Like Prime Minister's Questions in the United Kingdom, it is largely a show for the viewers, with members of the majority asking flattering questions, while the opposition tries to embarrass the government.
• In "Busman's Honeymoon" Wimsey facetiously refers to a gentleman's duty "to remember whom he had taken to bed" so as not to embarrass his bedmate by calling her by the wrong name.