embarrassed
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“I practice little things like that all the time because I love to play old people and I don’t ever want them to be embarrassed or ridiculed by my performance,” she recalled at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
He left school at 15, and thinks few of his teachers understood how much stress he had been under because he had been "embarrassed" to tell them.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
“I personally watched ‘American state of the art technology’ just get embarrassed on the battlefield,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Many prominent men have already been publicly embarrassed by their ties to Epstein.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
She pulled an expression that was half embarrassed, half proud.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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