embarrassment (n.)

  1. the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

  2. the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); he is currently suffering financial embarrassments'

  3. some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals'

  4. extreme excess; an embarrassment of riches

    [ Syn: overplus , plethora , superfluity ]

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