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Embarrassment   /ɪmbˈɛrəsmənt/   Listen
Embarrassment

noun
1.
The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public.
2.
The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy).
3.
Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed.
4.
Extreme excess.  Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity.





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"Embarrassment" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearest point of interception, to march with more ease at a greater distance from the enemy, and thus to render the haste required less damaging. This last way is the worst of all, it generally turns out like a new debt contracted by an insolvent debtor, and leads to greater embarrassment. There are cases in which this course is advisable; others where there is nothing else left; also instances in which it has been successful; but upon the whole it is certainly true that its adoption is usually ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz
... little surprised, and in truth confused, by Miss Ashton asking her, as if it was a matter of course, "What do you intend to do in the future?" as if she expected her to have her future all mapped out, and was to begin at once her preparation for it. Miss Ashton saw her embarrassment, and helped ...
— Miss Ashton's New Pupil - A School Girl's Story • Mrs. S. S. Robbins
... house about seventy-three years ago? Fact! They thought I wasn't going to pull through. I was over two days old before it looked like I'd come round. Say, I learned to walk out in that side yard. That reminds me—" Sharon hesitated in mild embarrassment—"there's a place between them two wings—make a bully place for a sun room; spoil the architecture, mebbe, but who cares? Sun room—big place to play round in—play room, or anything ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson
... must be too well informed of the many evils consequent upon financial embarrassment, and entertains too deep a natural affection for all your Majesty's subjects, not to desire that in whatever advice your Majesty's confidential servants may tender to your Majesty with respect to the Policy ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... judge, sensing something of the lamplighter's embarrassment in his presence and rather liking him ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester


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