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.
During the war in the Crimea, the thinness of the British ranks soon became an embarrassment.
He would not be able to live down the embarrassment in the event of someone telephoning him, as it was he who proposed the motion at committee to ban mobiles.
Suck up the embarrassment ; tell the truth, we decided.
The South at one time was viewed as the cultural backwater of the nation, both as an economic liability and a social embarrassment.
Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference. Camilla
He was always careful to avoid embarrassment.
In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
Although tradition suggests that young Chinese women be modest, no signs of embarrassment or shyness can be read on the waitresses' faces.
Yet in spite of this dreadful tenue he greeted me without embarrassment and indeed with a kind of artless pleasure. Ruggles of Red Gap
Mr Noyes will claim the MoD said nothing about the alleged landing because it wanted to save any embarrassment.
If there are good internal literary reasons why the author of Mark might have invented this story as the conclusion of his work, then the community that was the presumptive audience for the gospel simply may not have perceived the embarrassment that arose later, as other communities adopted and literalized the narrative invented in Mark. Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity
He looks a tad constipated to me, that or he has just emitted built-up gas and is clenching his carpentered cuspids in embarrassment.
To avoid embarrassment an assistant would call his mobile phone as soon as he closed his eyes. Times, Sunday Times
We are happy to clarify the position and apologise for the error and any embarrassment caused. Times, Sunday Times
Her cheeks felt hot with embarrassment, but when she looked at her new husband, she saw that his face only glowed with his love for her.
The embarrassment and shame it brings on the family means people are keeping quiet and women are being cocooned in their homes.
Along with embarrassment and guilt, shame is one of the emotions that motivate moral behaviour.
Being seated, she proceeded, still with an air of hurry and embarrassment, to open her cabas, to take out her books; and, while I was waiting for her to look up, in order to make out her identity — for, shortsighted as I was, I had not recognized her at her entrance — Mdlle. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland, Barbarossa
Police acknowledge that they may cause embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
Then, the movement kind of fizzled out from embarrassment. Think Progress » CPAC Speakers Bash Obama’s Use Of A Teleprompter — While Standing In Front Of A Teleprompter
Some in Mexico view the exodus of millions of people as an embarrassment while others as an escape valve for social unrest.
Nobody spoke for at least five minutes and Rachel squirmed in her chair with embarrassment.
Lan shut his eyes tight, sinking his head down a little in embarrassment and shyness.
The failure to bring broadband to the countryside has been an embarrassment for the government. Times, Sunday Times
The tone is established early on; broad strokes of unbridled praise for friends, co-workers and pets, a breathless, accelerative pace and an embarrassment of exclamation marks.
felt tongue-tied with embarrassment
Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz
Finally, to avoid any further embarrassment, Aryan took out his credit card and did the needful.
Since that moment, the football gods punished the team's rodomontade with injuries, embarrassment, and a 2000 flameout.
She can make you laugh, nod your head in agreement or cringe with embarrassment. The Sun
‘I'm Emma,’ said I, feeling the grip of nauseous embarrassment washing over me.
What was at stake was acute government embarrassment.
Another, who is in a five-year relationship, burns with embarrassment if she finds her feet sticking out of the covers when they're in bed together, because she thinks they're gnarly.
an embarrassment of riches
He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks. The Bride of Lammermoor
She lowered her lashes in sudden embarrassment.
“Well, that's something of an auspicious start, but that's why they have the phrase auspicious start, because one often starts that way,” I said, trying to cover up my embarrassment for the sloppy turn. Wake Up, Sir!
Not only would they save Scotland's capital city from irreversible destruction, but they might also spare Edinburgh the embarrassment of being exposed before Unesco as an example of sheer hypocrisy and unworthiness.
I always considered the ultimate embarrassment in chess to be when you lose your queen to a pawn.
As a symbol of Britain's musical worth, it's a bit of an embarrassment.
Ryan reddened in his light anger and embarrassment.
But it does play on social mores and our embarrassment about natural bodily functions, albeit in a crude way.
Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves.
Kayla yelped in shock and embarrassment at the scene they were displaying to innocent bystanders.
My embarrassment was nothing compared to my father's sense of guilt.
At this stage, my dancing is still awkward, rigid, uncoordinated, an embarrassment, to be frank.
Being virtually the only bachelor in the group was becoming something of an embarrassment. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Giving readings was seen as an embarrassment, and generations of German poets were proud to fumble around in sullen cantankerousness.
The pair denied making the call so the police communications centre redialled the number that had rung 111 and to the young woman's embarrassment the phone she was holding started ringing. Undefined
The extended family's financial embarrassment was closely related to some of their irrational practices which was out of their vanity.
Claudia shook her head, blushing slightly in embarrassment as all eyes looked at them.
She stumbled over her words as her cheeks flushed a dark pink of embarrassment.
He was shameless in his sycophancy and usually unaware of the embarrassment caused by his actions.
He rubbed his eyes and scrambled to his feet, brushing down his clothes to cover up his embarrassment. POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back
To get over the embarrassment of the "fizzle," Kim's technicians had to detonate another device to validate their designs and demonstrate the power of their weapon. North Korea Advertises Its Nukes
Yes, you may escape that moment of acute social embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
They paused with the same look of embarrassment and astonishment on their faces.
The incident caused huge embarrassment within the upper echelons of the royal family. Times, Sunday Times
You squirm with embarrassment when you're meant to squeal with delight. Times, Sunday Times
He cannot say he was unprepared for York council's financial embarrassment.
What's an embarrassment is the MN State GOP making such a statement. MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
He looks around and is consumed by acute embarrassment, even shame, at what he sees.
But again and again, he was dogged by scandals of his own making that made him as much of an embarrassment as an asset to the party he served.
‘I mean, I missed talking to you,’ he explained, but wasn't sure if the expression on Lara's face was relief or embarrassment as she glanced away uncooperatively.
Feelings of expectation, embarrassment, distress and emotional harm vary according to the individual.
She was red in the face, partly from embarrassment and partly from being rushed off her feet - the inn was unusually busy.
Embarrassment is likely a factor: Girard readily acknowledges that most people he meets with, ranging from scholars to politicians, ignore his entreaties or dismiss him as a lunatic.
Whatever the cause, fecal incontinence can be a source of embarrassment.
Dollar Bill Jefferson will win comfortably tonight, and luckily this embarrassment will presumably be overshadowed by an Obama win. Your Right Hand Thief
She felt acute embarrassment/anxiety/concern at his behaviour.
She nodded as a rush of embarrassment and frustration marked her face.
Ive found louise and she's living with another abuser plus there's stuff going on here that's doing my head in. lou looks like cill trevelyan and she was married to one of cills rapists for a while. she says there's things mum kept to herself to save the family embarrassment and I want to know what they are. Disordered Minds
It's true, to use a golf analogy, it's like they shanked the ball with Ago, called a mulligan, and hit a 300-yard drive before anyone could linger on the initial embarrassment. Rachel Thebault: The "Do-Over!": Reinventing Your Failing Business
As for the breakout musicians, their brief moments of capital-raking before being consumed live on reality TV will hardly be worth the embarrassment.
The alternative is acute embarrassment and a sport on the brink of disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Her life offers an embarrassment of material for an entertaining one-woman show, but See How Beautiful I Am has all the character of a slug.
When war broke out in 1914 the German antecedents of the royal family were a source of embarrassment.
Blanche Lincoln, who then declines in the polls, whereupon Obama "disengages" to reduce his own political embarrassment. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Largely, this can be explained by the embarrassment many of them feel about their obscene and unearned mega-fortunes.
The embarrassment of having a foreign head of state is compounded by our treatment as second-class subjects.
Once aboard, to his fugitive embarrassment, he is accosted by a young girl he vaguely remembers.
He said, with seeming embarrassment, that he would have to cancel the meeting.
In a week or three, I'll look back on what I've been writing recently and I'll either cringe with embarrassment or just be totally baffled by what was going on in my head.
The backhanded compliment had made her blood rise with both embarrassment and a little bit of annoyance.
Now his regime is a source of national embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
Just utter amazement and embarrassment. The Sun
I could hear the crowd laughing and my cheeks flamed with embarrassment.
Yes, you may escape that moment of acute social embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
His face was mottled red and white with embarrassment.
It was said to be guarded and under lock and key to avoid further embarrassment. The Sun
Incidentally, Lebanon, in turn, is in the sphere of embarrassment, with the policy of evasiveness that it adopts with regard to the Syrian issue at the Security Council. Raghida Dergham: Palestine at the United Nations: The Long Path of Wisdom
With embarrassment, feeling a fool, I admit I was a victim of a Nigerian fraud.
I stared at it for a minute before deciding that it means (in Cherie's made-up lingo land), "Death by embarrassment. February 4th, 2006
After President Obama forgave Lieberman for attacking his character and good intentions during 2008 presidential campaign, especially in light of Democratic Legislatures preference to terminate Lieberman's political career, the embarrassment is solely on "Joe the Jerk" Lieberman. MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
Neither Howard nor any Minister had nailed their colours to the mast in a way that would have made revelation of torture stories an embarrassment for them.
The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence.
Plus there are some seriously cheesy synth lines and fake handclaps etc that would make Lil Jon run from the room in embarrassment (maybe shouting something unintelligible as he did).
Mortified by the embarrassment of this mistaken identity, I log off and retire to bed early to consider whether there's any possible way to turn this ridiculous situation around with a shred of dignity.
Coughing and burping without a hint of embarrassment, it carries us from the train station, with its cheerful round clockface and neat front of red brick, over the weeping-willow-lined river and up the road, past the Tesco and Superdrug and a handful of pubs, past the castle and the mall and Poundland my favorite store because everything only costs a pound. A Love Letter to Norwich, England
Please do not redeem this voucher against any other product as refusal to accept may cause embarrassment. The Sun
But it is time to turn to some of those special and rare outgates that the Amen with the keys gave to His favoured handmaiden, the Lady Robertland; and the first kind of outgate, on account of which she was always such an astonishment to herself, was what she would call her outgate from providential disabilities, entanglements, and embarrassments. Samuel Rutherford
By his lying, stupidity and intemperance Lee has tarnished the club's image and caused embarrassment to supporters.
I noticed that the girl's ears had reddened with embarrassment.
In July 1627 Buckingham embarked upon his ill-fated expedition, which still further increased Charles I's financial embarrassments.
It gives the band an ability to loose the reigns and do something that precariously walks the line between excitement and embarrassment.
It should not be overlooked that this could be due to the feelings of fear, shame, embarrassment or anger that the victims may still feel during or even after the event.
With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment.
While some Democrats suggested the issues would ultimately be seen as innocent mistakes or technicalities, the controversy is a big embarrassment for a man in line to head the department with responsibility for enforcing the tax code. Geithner, Choice for Treasury, Questioned on His Tax Returns - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Anger is often caused by frustration or embarrassment, or a mixture of the two.
Tom humbly bowed his head and his cheeks blushed in the embarrassment.
But people would not like it; the embarrassment of a dead man's jacket, his baseball cap and panama on the hallstand.
It evoked feelings of nostalgia, embarrassment and wonder at how I was thinking then.
There was less enthusiasm from her school, where this sudden blaze of publicity was seen as no more than an embarrassment.
The alternative is acute embarrassment and a sport on the brink of disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Three times Dudzinski made excellent saves to spare his side from further embarrassment, including one acrobatic tip over the bar.
A touch of embarrassment swept over Rebecca as she remembered their last encounter and she could not bring herself to meet his eyes.
Without a pedigree authenticated by fellow nobles, true nobility was unthinkable - a problem that could cause acute embarrassment to the recently ennobled or the progeny of mésalliances.
They started to disagree over the clothes Ace insisted on buying her until she was almost overcome with embarrassment.
Pauline said today she feared that embarrassment and shame could be stopping Christine and Nicholas from contacting her.
Clearly, the career people in the intel community are feeling emboldened by the White House's recent Iraq embarrassments.
Even if a parent can't read or write themselves, they should put any personal embarrassment about their own literacy problems to one side and ensure that their child learns the skills.
He had averted a major political embarrassment. THE GUARDSMEN
Large numbers did not marry at all, deciding to remain celibate, some for religious reasons, others, it has been suggested, due to a certain embarrassment about sex.
She's from Idaho, not Alaska and we can be thankful one more political embarrassment is off the stage, hopefully sue Palin thanks hometown as resignation day approaches
This episode is bound to be a deep embarrassment for Washington.
It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
Since I last skied 20 years ago and Michael even longer, we will no doubt both prove to be a great embarrassment to them all. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment.
She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
I felt a lot of shame, embarrassment and humiliation, I lived with all that for years.
The government cannot afford more embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.
But it appears your late father suffered, shall I say, considerable pecuniary embarrassment. TANK OF SERPENTS
‘Yes,’ he agreed, his tone quiet and unemphatic, and regarded her with what seemed to be mingled perplexity and embarrassment.
Though in early manhood he felt no embarrassment among men, he said 'that he never yet was able to divest himself of an anti-Chesterfieldian awkwardness in mixed companies.' Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
You will find nothing but blunder and embarrassment result from any endeavour to enter into further particulars, such as "the relation of the dissepiment with respect to the valves of the capsule," etc., etc., since "in the various species of Veronica almost every kind of dehiscence may be observed" (C. under V. perfoliata, 1936, an Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers
It is not unusual for manic patients to run up large debts, or follow a course of action that later causes them intense embarrassment, or discomfort, when they have fully recovered.
I quickly slipped out of my togs and under the sheet with some embarrassment.
His unscientific screed is an academic embarrassment and blight on the reputation of this university. Wayne Besen: Dangerous New Anti-Gay Sham Study Debunked
Frank declines to say whether he inherited anything, squirming with embarrassment when the issue is raised. Times, Sunday Times
Surely , EST translation study is facing temporary embarrassment : reorientation.
Governor Sanford's greatest self-embarrassment is his self-righteous condemnation of others 'behavior. Bennett: Sanford needs to stop 'embarrassing himself'
The effect was electrical: the motion was carried by acclamation and there was a unanimous rush for the now wretched mariner whose false alarm at the masthead was the cause of our embarrassment, but on second thoughts it was decided to substitute Captain Troutbeck, as less generally useful and more undeviatingly in error. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
The mayor could have spared himself and this city so much cringing embarrassment.
Hot embarrassment flushed her cheeks as she threw back the quilt, taking care not to crease it.
After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.
But I was only play-acting to avoid embarrassment.
Many solicitors never overcome their own embarrassment about the amount that they charge, though few go on to lower their fees.
This might be the reason for my hesitation: embarrassment, brought on by a becoming modesty.
Medicine (1991) - Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarrassment. Celebrating Silly Science Since 1991
These evinced no embarrassment at the encounter.
The change from first person singular to plural evinces his embarrassment.
Her resignation will be a severe embarrassment to the party.
Like all lumbering communities Dryden did not present a very advanced or refined state of development in that period, and John Southworth, who was a keen and careful observer of men and things in those times in which he participated, used to say in after years that the Dryden farmer, who occasionally took out of his clearing in those days to the county seat of this or an adjoining county with his ox team a load of lumber, or perhaps a cargo of charcoal, or sometimes a few barrels of potash salts leached from the ashes gathered after the burning of his fallow, when he was interrogated by the tradesmen to who he sold his products as to where his home was, would admit with no little hesitation and embarrassment, that he lived "just in the edge of Dryden. Living in Dryden: Developing Dryden, circa 1825
She said: ‘Once you have overcome your initial embarrassment, it gives you a real buzz.’
It is thought players will now have a curfew to return to the team hotel to avoid any future embarrassment. The Sun
If labelling is to be effective, it is important that embarrassment, revulsion and even disgust be generated in the public mind.
This elitist, narcissistic, gigolo is an embarrassment and for the PI to back him just how out of touch they are. Sound Politics: Seattle P-I in a death spiral
It was said to be guarded and under lock and key to avoid further embarrassment. The Sun
The disgraceful attitude of these officers brings shame and embarrassment to all.
Don't let embarrassment or fear keep you from reporting fraud or abuse to the appropriate authorities.
Whether it's her love of conspiracy theories (but only those that involve the American Gov't perpetrating them), her Anti-American views, her hatred of America's military, or her love of anything that could possibly cause embarrassment to the US, the human roadblock they call Rosie is a big hit in lefty circles. Archive 2007-07-01
More than anything, I was thinking of the embarrassment and the humiliation. The Sun
He blinked sleepily at me, then realized what he was doing and immediately went into a flurry of apologies and embarrassment.
Imprisoned by an English embarrassment, I was unassertive in my twenties, and so my friend was not called upon to explain the anomalies.
Too often the switching is not done in time and payments are missed, accruing considerable embarrassment and penalties.
In the olden days if you were a dunce in class, you were made to stand at the back of the class, enduring unimaginable embarrassment.
When Belinda questioned Marriott more particularly about the strange hints which her lady had let fall, she with looks of embarrassment and horror declined repeating the words that had been said to her; yet persisted in asserting that Lady Delacour had been very _strange_ for these two or three days. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
Adolescents are paranoid with the illusion that everyone is focused on their flaws, leading to excessive grooming and easy embarrassment.
the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals
One memory in particular still makes me blush with embarrassment. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
But while keeping up the charade may be saving the ECB some short-term embarrassment, its existing policies of propping up insolvent banks and governments are only increasing the cost of the euro-zone crisis in the long term. Europe's Bad Bank
You automatically look for the cheapest items - but then feel a tinge of embarrassment because you don't want to be seen as ‘the ones who bought the tea towels’, the flannels, or a single pillow case.
The only embarrassment is the GOP's continued hypocrisy and their obstructionist tactics. MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
The fact that these same government agents then "infiltrated" the nascent Reform Party, to the great embarrassment of Preston Manning, shows that these "anti-hate" campaigns have long been torqued into a partisan political weapon. March 25th should be interesting - Ezra Levant
Judith colored slightly from both embarrassment and anger.
I quite agree, except I chose to hide behind my facade of dyed hair and unnatural lashes while pretending to not understand and therefore was spared the embarrassment of giving my unsubstantial opinions.
We are happy to clarify the position and apologise for the error and any embarrassment caused. Times, Sunday Times
Rebecca experienced a brief twinge of embarrassment as she wondered just what her children had seen if anything.
She suffered extreme embarrassment at not knowing how to read.
You will blush with embarrassment and beat yourself up in the days that follow. Times, Sunday Times
The campaign is unlikely to help, and quite likely to increase awkwardness and embarrassment.
Midfield offers a veritable embarrassment of riches. Times, Sunday Times
Did Auden ever look back on his adulatory poem about Sigmund Freud, whom he makes out to be a secular saint of science, with similar embarrassment, once it began to seem that Freud's ideas may have hurt more people than they helped?
A maelstrom of emotions crossed the boy's face: embarrassment, anger, frustration.
It is not so much the embarrassment or hardship of slopping out that is irking these ex-cons - it is more the public impression of what humiliations or hardships such a practice involves.
To put this kind of guesstimate story out there is a disservice to your readers and as it will no doubt be referenced further down the line, should be an embarrassment to Harvard University. Print is still king: Only 3 percent of newspaper reading happens online » Nieman Journalism Lab
Despite her flush of embarrassment at the small tradition, she grinned and ran down to them.

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