Definition of Embarrassment

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Embarrassment

A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.

Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.

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Embarrassment Quotations

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
Paul Tillich

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
George Eliot

Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?
Tom Cruise

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.
Theodor Adorno

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
Al Capp

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

Embarrassment Translations

embarrassment in Dutch is penarie, knelpunt, benardheid, hinder
embarrassment in Finnish is pula
embarrassment in German is Verlegenheit
embarrassment in Italian is imbarazzo
embarrassment in Norwegian is forlegenhet

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