How To Use Embarrassed In A Sentence
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The question was tinged with a touch of sarcasm that made her embarrassed flush renew its bright shade and caused her to clench her fists.
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Rebecca was too embarrassed to reply, but he took her silence as an affirmative.
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He didn't even have the grace to look embarrassed.
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So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
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Lori gets embarrassed if we ask her to sing.
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He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
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We have every reason to remain indignant, disgusted, embarrassed and angry about this fact, but no room anymore whatsoever to feign surprise.
The CNN estimate of the Searchlight Rally. | RedState
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She seemed embarrassed for a moment but quickly recovered her poise.
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Watching their hand-holding shadows, she was embarrassed at being dressed for church.
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Am I the only one who's embarrassed to admit that I don't trust that every guy with a card board sign at the freeway off ramp is really a veteran?
Senator: 131,000 homeless vets a 'disgrace'
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He's embarrassed to be receiving public assistance.
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They wolf-whistled at me, and I was so embarrassed I tripped up.
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And I was really embarrassed about how grotesque it looked.
The Sun
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The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
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She felt embarrassed by his persistent attentions.
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She rubbed at her eyes with it, embarrassed to have lost control in such a manner.
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But you are a little bit embarrassed.
The Sun
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I often feel embarrassed by 400 away fans outsinging 5,000 home fans, but what can I do about it?
Undefined
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She is embarrassed by everything and accordingly cursed in her ownership of Theo, a tricky little shih-tzu.
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But there was the usual reverent silence, broken by the occasional embarrassed cough or ripple of restrained applause.
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The former waitress is now a stay-at-home mum and is unable to return to work as she is too embarrassed to explain her condition to employers.
The Sun
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When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
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So an embarrassed clerk in the table office wrote to Mr Wilson, advising him of proposed amendments to his motion.
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His bad table manners embarrassed her.
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It embarrassed her to meet strange men in the corridor at night.
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I smiled, a little embarrassed of my lame story.
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While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who departed on the instant.
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Mary was so embarrassed. She could only hide her face in shame.
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Lori gets embarrassed if we ask her to sing.
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Asked if he is ever embarrassed at being labeled a junkman, Scudamore notes that "it's not the sexiest business, but my family and friends are proud of what I've achieved.
Dan Dorfman: The Junkman Cometh
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You could tell from his body language that he was very embarrassed.
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I felt embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was embarrassed about the nature of his illness and reluctant to discuss his bowel function with anyone, especially young women.
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The assaulted 20 year old woman was standing nearby in tears, still shook up and embarrassed after the incident.
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He looked embarrassed for a moment, then quickly regained his poise.
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Lor, feeling a little embarrassed about confessing something like that, turned away from Kite and stared at her current work of bandaging.
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He felt a flush of embarrassed panic.
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Since this has happened I have become embarrassed about what I thought to be a practical, sensible coin.
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I felt embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it came to discussing facts, she seemed to obfuscate the issue (Sarah, if you're reading this, don't be embarrassed to look up "obfuscate").
Lloyd Garver: Sarah Palin: American Idol?
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However, such a relationship requires patient treatment: the young can be bored, the oldsters embarrassed.
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Ariel tried to control the embarrassed flush that rose in her cheeks.
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The embarrassed nomes stood around in a circle.
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As nothing else happened and everything quieted down again, the man put away his gun, looking quite embarrassed, but he soon regained his usual sedateness.
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Of all my second viewing fluctuations, I'm most pleased to say that the cast entire fares much better when not jumping off the screen like flimsy cardboard cutouts, which is to say that I no longer feel so ungodly embarrassed for the lot of them.
Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing
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The Duke tried to appear unconcerned, but both he and his wife were so evidently embarrassed that they won the sympathy of their fellow passengers.
Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
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An embarrassed Steil opened his antediluvian Hotpoint refrigerator and poured water into two discarded Classic Coke cans.
OUTCAST
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America in the 30s boasted an active and unembarrassed left.
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Kitted out in a gown and mortar board in University College Cork in May 2002, Keane said he felt ‘slightly embarrassed in front of the other people getting doctorates‘.
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Now the congressmen are embarrassed and are coming up with all kinds of lame excuses to explain why they were there.
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He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham
Woodstock
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Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, asked if the government had been embarrassed at being "chastised" by the EU and pointed out that ministers have not said where the cuts would fall.
Epolitix News
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The court heard that she was ashamed and embarrassed and realises things are over with the dad.
The Sun
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But even so, I'm pleased and flattered, and very slightly embarrassed.
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I had never seen someone slink out of the Chamber in such an embarrassed manner.
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We spend most of the year hiding from the cold, we are not that comfortable in our bodies, we're reserved, polite, easily embarrassed and we just lack a kind of hungriness and fundamental drive that you need to do consistently well in sport, especially at today's level ....
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 23 June
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Wearing the bracelet/anklet is a punishment, one should be embarrassed to wear one.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Lindsay Lohan Shows Off Her SCRAM Bracelet
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He embarrassed me with a difficult question.
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But the thought of anyone wanting my autograph is too overwhelming for me to really comprehend, so it pushes me to being more embarrassed than anything.
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I'm a little embarrassed to say that I simply can't remember the environment variable that I need to set in order to remove what I call "stale" network adapters in Device Manager.
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When someone asks me what business I am in I become embarrassed stutter and stammer.
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Many complained about people who take untrained, ill-behaved animals to public events as well as about people who chuckle a little embarrassed but nothing more when their dogs lunge at people while on walks or leap up on strangers and do that "if it's vertical I'll try to breed with it" behavior against everyone's legs.
Pet Talk: Some people hate dogs, in no uncertain terms
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When my wife worked for an important Napa Valley winery, at all parties involving management, winery worker snad vineyard workers, there was very little social interaction between the three groups and any attempt to break the ice would have embarrassed just about everybody.
Bubba�s
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The next I hear, she has been spotted dining alone, unembarrassed, in an unfussy brasserie I had suggested.
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I was too embarrassed to look at him when I clicked the light off and said goodnight.
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Every one of these groups is embarrassed by this "amateurism," and, for the sake of their public image in a world of non-computer people, they all attempt to look as stern and formal and impressive as possible.
The Hacker Crackdown
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I was so embarrassed that I had to buy those macadamias by way of apology.
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During the 2001 general election he embarrassed his party by claiming it would cut taxes by 20 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.
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Because their bodies begin to grow so rapidly during adolescence, teenagers often feel awkward, self-conscious, uncoordinated, embarrassed and even confused.
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Always the master of every topic on which he attempts to enlighten, he is neither foiled by the sophistries nor embarrassed by the bravadoes of his opponents.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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I dashed after her and caught up with her outside where she stood unabashed and unembarrassed staring around her.
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She was embarrassed suddenly by the ripe-rotten smell of blue statice, which Madda liked to decorate the house with because the flowers “died so beautifully.”
Slice Of Cherry
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Every time she caught his eye, she would glance away embarrassed.
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A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery.
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Tatiana was quite embarrassed and wished Alexander wouldn't look at her with such mouthwatering adoration.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Phillip cracked a small smile in a sort of embarrassed confession.
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Gabby rolled her eyes up, unembarrassed and continuing to hold her compact.
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We have seen how necessary it is that one mind, disembarrassed of all extraneous influences, shall create one coherent plan which shall ever after be strictly followed.
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I said I was embarrassed not to know; someone had assured me that a theremin was a kind of "Eastern" religion, and the "cracking into a thousand pieces" was the consequence of being peered at by a waiflike holy man enveloped in a white shroud.
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I, in my turn, became embarrassed and huffy and told her to take the money back.
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I kept on sleeping indoors for a while since I was embarrassed to go to bed in public.
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He was embarrassed, which made him awkward.
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Despite the statement, an embarrassed Pentagon decided to pretend ignorance.
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As Myers orders him to drive away from a filling station without waiting for change, we feel embarrassed on behalf of the pump attendant left standing in their backdraft.
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There was an embarrassed silence.
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I was embarrassed and confused by their reaction.
The Sun
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I felt mortified by my own klutziness, embarrassed by how uncoordinated I was and how many years older I was than the young things who could run for hours on the treadmills—and talk on their cell phones at the same time.
CSS: Shaping the New You
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The teachers are supposed to teach us about 'safe sex', but most of them are too embarrassed.
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The Slovakians' ability to pass the ball around a pitch that was hardly conducive to an expansive approach embarrassed the ham-fisted attempts of Eriksson's men to mimic their hosts' fluency and rhythm.
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I am no fuddy duddy but I am embarrassed by my wife's behavior.
Barbara Greenberg: The Problem With Dressing Like Your Teen
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The other one was young, chubby, red-faced, with short red hair and looked embarrassed.
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I suddenly felt embarrassed to have braces on my teeth.
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De Gaulle was too embarrassed to make a scene of it.
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I was that embarrassed I didn't know what to say.
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And they are ferociously unembarrassed about taking their clothes off: most German spa baths are full of elderly nudes.
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Welcome back," Maxine said, unknitting her fingers from his, as though a little embarrassed by the intimacy.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Embarrassed, she paid by cash and wrestled with her conscience all the way home.
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I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
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Julia looked hard at the Thessalian for some moments in rather an embarrassed silence.
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In fact, being typically British, when I hear those unmistakeable sounds, I invariably find myself feeling incredibly embarrassed even about being in the privacy of my own flat.
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Your mum may feel embarrassed, guilty or hurt about what happened.
The Sun
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He laughed and looked at his plate, as if he was embarrassed for reading my emotions wrong.
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I am no fuddy duddy but I am embarrassed by my wife's behavior.
Barbara Greenberg: The Problem With Dressing Like Your Teen
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See how they bluster, or say the wrong thing, or just look embarrassed.
Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
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In one of my favourite scenes, the Duke catches an embarrassed Valentine attempting to elope with Silvia and banishes him.
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I tried to look in another direction — any direction — but they quickly drew me into conversation, completely unembarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aw," said Dumble, who had expected nothing, and was rather embarrassed than otherwise by their generosity, "thank 'ee kindly, sirs, and young leddies; there wasn't no' casion to give us nothing; but thank 'ee very much all the same, and' nother time we'll be glad to 'blige' ee with
Kitty Trenire
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One possible reaction was laughter, although a very different laughter to the embarrassed titters of a modern school group when sex-ed comes around.
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In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.
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I'm embarrassed and humiliated to think that I actually live in a place where this sort of thing seems to be acceptable, and where some will invoke race to excuse it.
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This trope is almost banal: we hate what we idealize -- be it power, fame, wealth -- because what we idealize we know deep down is not worth wanting and so we feel embarrassed and even dirty for wanting it so.
Rabbi Irwin Kula: The Roasting Of Weiner And The Public Good
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But his face had not the frankness of the jolly hunter; he was downlooked, embarrassed, and avoided the eyes of those who looked hard at him.
Chapter XXV
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My boss was embarrassed and ashamed.
Times, Sunday Times
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As he opened the box, the father embarrassed by his earlier overreaction.
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The next morning neither of them was the slightest bit embarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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To redeem himself, he does agree to don a Santa suit and wear a little red bow on his head without looking too embarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blue eyes into which Betty turned to look were honest, too, and the shock of tow-colored hair and the half-embarrassed grin that displayed a set of uneven, white teeth instantly prepossessed the girl in favor of the speaker.
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I could tell from her body language that she was very embarrassed.
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He looked embarrassed and shifty.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scenes of handshaking between the delegates from the two sides at these different locations may make many people embarrassed, given the reality of the tense situation on the peninsula.
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The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown.
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Don't jump to conclusions, she chided herself, personally embarrassed by her outrageous notions.
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All laughed, and Terry had the good grace to look suitably embarrassed.
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I tried to turn away still embarrassed at my unclothed state.
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| Reply | Permalink the politics of fear indeed. how dare the new yorker make fun of fear! don't they know that democrats are too afraid of it for them to satirize it? boycott conde nast?!? ha! what a bunch of idiots you guys are.seriously. i'm becoming embarrassed to hang around here with you dolts.
Election Central Morning Roundup
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An extra 10 points to Damian in that piece for using the word "orogeny", which I'm embarrassed to say
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Well, not exactly no one, she corrected herself, for she knew Tina would not be embarrassed or afraid.
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Dawg, purely my opinion, but I think it's because they bragged back home and when they first got here that they were going to learn Spanish and integrate and interact in the local (Mexican) community and now find themselves unable or unwilling to make the necessary changes or to study enough to actually speak a little Spanish … more than más cerveza at least … so they are embarrassed, yet won't admit it.
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The teacher disembarrassed the student of the qusetion she couldn't answer.
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I was embarrassed by his comments about my clothes.
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He'd never admit to being embarrassed.
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He turned on chief executives with alarming regularity and would often speak for just a few minutes before heading for the door, leaving embarrassed party officials to try to explain away his ungracious behaviour.
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He got embarrassed and kept nodding his head as the people continued to applaud.
Christianity Today
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In the end, when the ‘crisis’ has been resolved in the usual muddy compromise, people are embarrassed to look back and see how overwrought they had become.
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I plunged my hands into my trouser pockets and tried to affect a casual air, even though I found myself suddenly embarrassed.
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I don't really like to compare myself to him because it makes me embarrassed.
The Sun
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She may feel embarrassed and ashamed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The long sleeves of her dress embarrassed her movements.
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I will however admit to occasionally, when I feel particularly embarrassed for my unabashed public monologues, pretending to be singing instead, like "* mumble mumble* I really should complete my masterplan for world domination today
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I was embarrassed by their compliment.
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As Myers orders him to drive away from a filling station without waiting for change, we feel embarrassed on behalf of the pump attendant left standing in their backdraft.
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She is such a prude that she is even embarrassed by the sight of naked children.
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I was embarrassed and confused.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was embarrassed when praises were rained on him.
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It couldn't survive the unforgiving light of the eighties, and sloped off to die in embarrassed solitude.
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We don't complain because we are embarrassed, bewildered and shocked, too ashamed to do or say anything.
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He endured regular dressing-downs in front of embarrassed team-mates.
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The court heard that she was ashamed and embarrassed and realises things are over with the dad.
The Sun
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I'm embarrassed in front of all these people that two grown men allowed a situation like this to escalate the way it did.
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He is somewhat embarrassed.
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I cannot form a relationship because I am embarrassed to show my flabby skin to a man.
The Sun
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It wasn't within my power to have John unembarrassed too.
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I feel embarrassed, now that I let adult men kneel before me and shine my shoes.
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In his buttonhole was a hyacinth, and in one slender ivory hand he carried a huge bunch of pink roses, which, bowing deeply, he presented to the embarrassed girl.
Fire-Tongue
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He nods, just a little bit embarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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My wife has become crippled by arthritis. She is embarrassed to ask the doctor about it.
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Now if we feel compelled to write in longhand we are embarrassed by the unpractised scrawl that we see appearing on the page in front of us.
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It embarrassed her to meet strange men in the corridor at night.
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Confused and embarrassed, he searched for something else to say.
Bomber
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She seemed embarrassed for a moment but quickly recovered her poise.
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I was thrilled at the prospect ahead of me but diffident and embarrassed at joining a community so totally unfamiliar.
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The organisers were embarrassed by the unfavourable media publicity.
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Her effusive thanks embarrassed everybody.
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He nods, just a little bit embarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Artaxerxes had heard something about a skirmish of ships near some island called Salamis, in which the king of Sidon had been embarrassed by certain Greek captains.
The Battle of Salamis
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Tony spilled red wine all over their carpet. He was so embarrassed!
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I'm not sure if I actually want to marry her," Harry said, feeling acutely embarrassed.
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The Ministry of Transportation suspended my license and I was extremely embarrassed and humiliated.
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The kid disembarrassed her of the heavy bag.
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The opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which Mr Chen used to lead, is embarrassed.
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Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback.
Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson
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I was strong on the outside, but inside I was embarrassed, ashamed, and weeping.
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He became embarrassed when a journalist asked him pointed questions about his finances.
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The long sleeves of her dress embarrassed her movements.
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Saxon ceased abruptly, embarrassed by her own garrulity; and yet the impulse was strong to tell this young man all about herself, and it seemed to her that these far memories were a large part of her.
CHAPTER VIII
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She saw me staring and stared back confrontationally, then dismissively turned away so that I was embarrassed for staring.
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Everyone became embarrassed and conversation dried up.
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At every turn, a consistent manner of unembarrassed critical conversation unites them and asserts its foundational importance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Smith is embarrassed about the award, believing that it should have gone to Graham Gooch.
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Their desire to try to protect the integrity of Team England meant they were uneasy and almost embarrassed by the financial bonanza awaiting them.
The Sun
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George has a thick neck and is not easily embarrassed but his high handed action is now rebounding on him.
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Her questions about my private life embarrassed me.
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I was embarrassed and wondered if there was something in my appearance or demeanor that had amused her.
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They had pushed and pushed and bullied their way into a freedom that both scared and embarrassed them.
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Sufficient to say I was deeply embarrassed, and the time has come to put an end to this absurdity.
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He did so without making either of us feel awkward or embarrassed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The opposition Democratic Progressive Party, which Mr Chen used to lead, is embarrassed.
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He embarrassed the pundits, and pulverized the best bowlers that the region offered.
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Our progress was embarrassed by lots of baggage.
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was embarrassed by her child's tantrums
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As the rest of the tawdry tale emerged the Foreign Office and Downing Street lapsed into embarrassed silence.
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Cancer is a taboo subject and people are frightened or embarrassed to talk openly about it.
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The writs had been “disembarrassed … of some troublesome appendages and some artificial niceties,” but were still, by comparison, archaic.19
A History of American Law
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When that happens, she gets embarrassed as other pedestrians wonder what the fuss is about.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can tell that he is extremely embarrassed," Mr Brigden added.
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I was nationally embarrassed because of medication and illness.
The Sun
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He has ducked, bobbed and weaved with it, but he is clearly embarrassed by it now.
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The decline in sales embarrassed our company.
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A man of family, partly from indiscretion, and from various other causes, becomes embarrassed; the clamours of his creditors soon magnify his luxuries, but not a word is said about their innumerable extortions, in the shape of commissions, percentages, and other licensed modifications of cheatery, nor are they reckoned to the advantage of the debtor.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
