embarrassment
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This would risk becoming an embarrassment as well as a handicap.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026
The failure of Italy’s national team to qualify for the World Cup, for the third time in a row, is such an embarrassment in this soccer-mad country that Italians are purposefully ignoring it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 4, 2026
I wrote last week about opportunities in closed-end bond funds, particularly some issued by Franklin Resources’ Western Asset Management, or Wamco, amid the embarrassment from a recent scandal.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026
The relief will have been Tuchel's, who would surely have been unable to survive such embarrassment had England lost, irrespective of his contract extension.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026
“Oh!” she cried in evident embarrassment, “it all meant nothing; a mere joke among ourselves.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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