embarrassment
Example Sentences
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Building a castell requires intense tactile cooperation, triggering fear and embarrassment, and dismantling professional hierarchies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
He takes the defiance as an insult and the public insult as an embarrassment.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
"There's a sense of embarrassment," she says, "because that is what your body's meant to do so you feel like you're failing yourself."
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
It was the biggest embarrassment of all time that caused the uproar that it did.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Wickham’s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing embarrassment
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"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, List 1
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