Words similar to embarrassment

Example sentences for: embarrassment

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It was not classy or first-rate, but it saved them what they perceived to be embarrassment.
One place has the distinction of having no fewer than four atoms named after it, an embarrassment of nomenclature arising from what was originally thought to be one element turning out on closer inspection to be several.
The Times of London, noting that Haider's result "has thrown the country's politics into turmoil, frightened investors and brought closer to power the leader of the largest and most radical far-right party in Europe," said Monday in an editorial that it is a disaster for Social Democrat Chancellor Viktor Klima, an embarrassment for Austria, and "a triumph for a man whose political prejudices have shattered the country's cosy and often corrupt consensus."
The Times also noted that the National Rifle Association faced "the considerable embarrassment" of holding its annual convention next week in Denver, very close to the scene of the tragedy.
Malamud's daughter, Janna Malamud Smith, has just now brought out a book called Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life , in which she says that, coming across a sexual scene in one of her father's novels, she put the book down in embarrassment, out of daughterly modesty.