embarrassment
Example Sentences
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We can do that in private, to avoid embarrassment.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
Growing up in a south Asian family in Leicester, Ranvia remembers the embarrassment she felt at not being able to dress the same way as her high school friends.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Despite his public embarrassment and supposed fall-off, he’s still the most-streamed rapper on Earth.
From Salon • May 21, 2026
Plenty of people in the 1920s thought radio programming was a noisy, idiotic embarrassment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
He rarely smiled, perhaps because of embarrassment over his broken and missing teeth; he never looked at himself in a mirror because he disapproved of what his appearance had become.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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