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"So as usual they feel embarrassed, they think they should do something and they react and they say 1 million shillings reward. Absolutely useless," the activist said.

From BBC

The Dodgers shouldn’t be here battling baseball’s junior varsity, and they know it, and they’re intent on pounding and pitching their way out of this embarrassing situation as quickly as possible.

And don’t forget those people passing by in embarrassed silence and everyone like them across the country and their friends and relatives, all refusing to go along until their demands are addressed.

From Salon

She added that on seeing the sketch, she thought: "I have a choice here to go in and be embarrassed about it and just say 'I didn't like that. It was mean'."

From BBC

Pete Davidson opens up to the Breakfast Club, saying he was ‘embarrassed’ by the attention his personal life attracted as he dated a string of famous females.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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