B1

peinlich

Meaning

  1. woeful, hurtful
  2. penal, applying criminal law, having to do with jurisprudence competent for capital punishment
  3. pertaining to or containing torture
  4. embarrassing, cringeworthy, or otherwise awkward, perverse, adverse, untoward
  5. (obsolete) crotchety, truculent
  6. meticulous

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaɪ̯nˌlɪç/

German

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