embarrassment
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People feel empathetic embarrassment for robots in uncomfortable situations.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Bono jumps in to save his friend's embarrassment….
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
A team of lab assistants spent months watching their reactions, coding facial expressions and scoring them against nine emotional behaviors: anger, disgust, happiness/amusement, contempt, sadness, embarrassment, fear, surprise and confusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Now that we’ve confirmed that a somewhat edgier choice is better than a well-intentioned embarrassment, we should file away this memory and never speak of it again.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
He could only imagine how unpresentable he looked, but he purposely didn’t imagine it because the embarrassment would be too great.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
The Duchess of York has so far been the great survivor of the royal world, bouncing back from embarrassments that would have sunk many others.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
The moves by Khanna and Veasy put Republicans in an awkward spot, but they are likely just symbolic embarrassments.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2025
The arrest of Oceguera was the latest in a series of embarrassments for the Sheriff’s Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
What if further embarrassments emerge from US court cases about Jeffrey Epstein?
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Vocabulary lists containing embarrassment
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"One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia, List 1
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