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US
/ɪmˈbɛɹəsmənt/
]
[ UK /ɛmbˈæɹəsmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɛmbˈæɹəsmənt/ ]
NOUN
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
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extreme excess
an embarrassment of riches -
the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
he is currently suffering financial embarrassments -
some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
How To Use embarrassment In A Sentence
- Regardless of the outcome of the trial, the whole episode has been a huge embarrassment to English football.
- The excruciating embarrassment of finding one's personal peccadillos exposed to public scrutiny makes kiss-and-tell the perfect vengeance-fodder.
- What is already a political embarrassment could turn into an economic nightmare. Times, Sunday Times
- Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
- They have suffered embarrassment and worst from dopes, dubbos and incompetents.
- This will make you laugh out loud - and cringe with embarrassment. The Sun
- She caught his embarrassment off him, a flushing sickness that left them avoiding each other's eyes. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
- Last year, the lights were not removed until March, occasioning embarrassment for both the Chamber and the Council.
- Plimer has made something of a career out of baiting Christians, though his antics have proved an embarrassment even to some of his fellow sceptics.
- They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
