embarrassment

Definition:
1. The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public.
2. The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy).
3. Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed.
4. Extreme excess.

Use 'embarrassment' in a sentence:

• 1. I wanted to spare Frances the embarrassment of discussing this subject.
• 2. I'm glad you offered—it saved me the embarrassment of having to ask.
• 3. I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that.
• 4. The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government.
• 5. We apologize for any embarrassment this may have caused.
• 6. We apologise for any embarrassment this may have caused.
• 7. I'm glad you offered ─ it saved me the embarrassment of having to ask.
• 8. He fell back in embarrassment when he saw that Ross had no hair at all.
• 9. The poverty figures were undoubtedly an embarrassment to the president.
• 10. If you don't want to sound impolite, or cause embarrassment or distress of any kind to the person you're talking to, you should learn to use tactful and tentative forms in your English.
• 11. Her cheeks were hot with embarrassment.
• 12. The facts could cause embarrassment if they ever became public.
• 13. Her cheeks burned with embarrassment.
• 14. As every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
• 15. Embarrassment has kept me from doing all sorts of things.
• 16. The administration is just stonewalling in an attempt to hide their political embarrassment.
• 17. If we do, they tell us, we will be able to meet new people with confidence and deal with every situation confidently and without embarrassment.
• 18. He was writhing with embarrassment.
• 19. I think I would have died of embarrassment.
• 20. The subject makes her writhe with embarrassment.
• 21. Some people have left out of embarrassment at what's happened to them.
• 22. You have been an embarrassment to us from the day Doug married you.
• 23. It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
• 24. He was always careful to avoid embarrassment.
• 25. The man was being a positive embarrassment.
• 26. He could feel his face reddening with embarrassment.
• 27. He tried to hide his embarrassment by telling jokes.
• 28. There were shrieks of embarrassment, mingled with giggles, from some of the girls as they struggled to protect their modesty.
• 29. Her resignation will be a severe embarrassment to the party.
• 30. She turned scarlet from embarrassment, once she realized what she had done.
• 31. She went scarlet with embarrassment.
• 32. With them, there's not the same embarrassment as when buying one carrot in a little greengrocer.
• 33. She groaned at the memory, suffering all over again the excruciating embarrassment of those moments.
• 34. She couldn't disguise her glee at their embarrassment.
• 35. She blushed with embarrassment.
• 36. Much to her embarrassment she realized that everybody had been listening to her singing.
• 37. The art gallery's problem is an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.
• 38. Mention sex therapy and most people will titter in embarrassment.
• 39. This episode is bound to be a deep embarrassment for Washington.
• 40. She went bright pink with embarrassment.
• 41. His face glowed with embarrassment.
• 42. Embarrassment rooted her to the spot.
• 43. Asking does not cost a moment of embarrassment, but do not ask embarrass our entire lives.