embarrassment

Therefore Italy will likely be dropping into the play-offs, which have been a source of recent heartbreak and embarrassment.

Leafy speaks for all of the author’s blundering characters when, at one low ebb, he sums himself up as “an aristocrat of pain and frustration, a prince of anguish and embarrassment.”

It took this group a while to get to the source of embarrassment, but eventually they did.

But the No. 15 Bruins finally asserted themselves with a big run sparked by some impressive offense of their own, pulling away for an 83-62 victory to avoid embarrassment on their home court.

Unlike initiatives that might go wrong and cause embarrassment, climate change was a cause to which money could be safely devoted to no effect without fear of criticism.