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embarrassment
noun as in humiliation, shame
Strong matches
Example Sentences
The Palestinian official told the BBC that the Hamas negotiators had adjusted their presence in the region and were keeping their locations secret to avoid embarrassment for host countries.
One of his victims told BBC News NI that Morrow "thrived off me feeling shame and embarrassment".
To my minor embarrassment, the event organizer requested that all roughly 20 of us introduce ourselves at the start of the meeting.
In this case, that mainly includes the earnest David, a digital ad salesman and devoted family man with controlled obsessive-compulsive disorder and a low threshold for embarrassment, the latter of which Benji repeatedly tests.
But then, so is the Army, which cravenly accommodated Trump in a similar fashion by issuing a non-report to avoid any embarrassment to Trump.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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