embarrassment
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" |
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Related Words: trouble |
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Antonyms: disembarrassment |
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(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public |
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Related Words: abashment, bashfulness, chagrin, confusion, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment, humiliation, mortification, self-consciousness, shame, shamefacedness, sheepishness, uncomfortableness, uneasiness |
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(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments" |
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Related Words: emotional state, spirit |
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(noun) extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" |
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Synonyms: nimiety, overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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Related Words: excess, excessiveness, inordinateness, redundance, redundancy |
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