Sentence examples of "embarrassing" in English with translation "оконфузить"

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And the British people were still upset about losing the Revolution, so they decided to embarrass him a little bit by putting a huge picture of General Washington in the only outhouse, where he'd have to encounter it. В душах англичан ещё оставалась горечь от поражения в войне, поэтому они решили немного его оконфузить, повесив огромный портрет генерала Вашингтона в том уличном туалете, где он мог на него наткнуться.
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