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What does embarrassment mean?
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Simple sentences
He went pale with fear and then turned red with embarrassment.
Tom is an embarrassment.
Maria rubbed her cheeks with the palms of her hands and looked around with embarrassment.
Mary's face turned red with embarrassment.
Tom nearly died of embarrassment.
Mary nearly died of embarrassment.
Tom almost died of embarrassment.
Mary almost died of embarrassment.
I was feverish with embarrassment.
He noticed her embarrassment.
Tom's face got red with embarrassment.
Mary tried to hide her embarrassment.
Tom tried to hide his embarrassment.
Tom turned red with embarrassment.
Mary turned red with embarrassment.
I nearly died of embarrassment.
Movie subtitles
But that brings us to another embarrassment.
If we're honest now, we're going to save ourselves a lot of embarrassment.
Sorry. I certainly hope I haven't caused you any embarrassment.
So we decided to spare ourselves any possible embarrassment.
No. I say it with some embarrassment.
You say it with some embarrassment?
It would spare you some embarrassment.
You seem to enjoy subjecting me to. every kind of embarrassment possible.
And knowing what was on his mind and to save him the embarrassment. of having to tell me.
No! Your embarrassment comes too late.
I was out for the great embarrassment and I liked it.
It's an embarrassment.
Listen, Preacher, being here is causing me a lot of embarrassment.
You should have said anxiety and saved us both embarrassment.
You know, Mr Halton, this resemblance will always create embarrassment between us.
I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Topper, to have caused you this embarrassment.
Monsieur le Marquis, you have caused this hotel grave embarrassment.
I thought I'd die of embarrassment.
He will have the embarrassment of walking the entire floor.
And knowing what was on his mind and to save him the embarrassment. of having to tell me. The Bishop.
I'm glad you provided a towel big enough to cover my embarrassment.
Colonel Geraud is very gallant in trying to relieve me of embarrassment.
Yes, what happens? produced by a embarrassment.
Unfortunately, as I have discovered to my embarrassment, Henri is loyal to his emperor.
Your embarrassment comes too late.
It will save us both a lot of embarrassment.
Then you must tell me the truth without embarrassment, holding nothing back.
You're an embarrassment.
It's a terrible embarrassment to me but could you ask your husband just once more to help us out?
It's an embarrassment to our ancestors.
Listen, preacher being here's caused me a lot of embarrassment.
You caused me a great deal of embarrassment.
News and current affairs
What should have been a mere extension of the millennia-old art of building pedestrian bridges, proved to be a modern engineering embarrassment.
Italy, to cite just one example, is a bureaucratic embarrassment where it takes 4 months for an entrepreneur to set up a business.
One question is why Bush and Cheney set themselves up for this embarrassment.
Bush's position is more than wrong; it is an embarrassment.
Make no mistake: policymakers' track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment.
His presence is an embarrassment to NATO, but an even greater disgrace for Russia.
It is a huge embarrassment for US President Barack Obama that he proposed - admittedly under pressure from the Republican opposition - to expand offshore oil drilling greatly just before the BP catastrophe struck.
Europe's leading economies, like Germany, are a fiscal embarrassment.
These changes are likely to outlast US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's embarrassment.
American journalists also know that the government classifies information mostly to spare it embarrassment, or for expediency, rather than because it has genuine national-security concerns.
Europe's embarrassment is not likely to worsen, nor last very long.
That view was embraced by the Obama administration, leading to some embarrassment this summer for new Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
As soon it was known that he had an intimate relationship with a former fashion model, he decided to marry her, avoiding any further embarrassment.
That retraction appears to be causing as much embarrassment - and diplomatic vitriol - in Japan and South Korea today as the original series did.
Faced with the embarrassment of his pastor's views on race and on America, Obama did not go into a huddle with spin-doctors to fathom how he should deal with the problem.
The trickiest cases are in a third category: private conversations whose disclosure is bound to cause offense, embarrassment, or tension, but has no obvious redeeming public-policy justification.
Avoiding embarrassment may at times be in the national interest, but it can also protect the careers of politicians and bureaucrats.