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Another word for embarrassment

embarrassment Synonyms

embarrassment

n.

The condition of being embarrassed
confusion, chagrin, mortification, discomfiture, shame, humiliation, abashment, discomposure, discomfort, disconcertment, disconcertion, bashfulness, self-consciousness, shyness, timidity, inhibition, awkwardness, perplexity, distress, fluster, flurry, shamefacedness, egg on one's face, discombobulation*, stew*.
Anything that embarrasses
mistake, blunder, faux pas, awkwardness, clumsiness, indebtedness, uncertainty, gaucherie, hindrance, poverty, impecuniosity, destitution, distress, difficulties, involvement, intricacy, obligation, crude action, stupid action, indiscretion, default, debt, awkward situation, predicament, dilemma, puzzle, perplexity, tangle, strait, pinch, quandary, plight, fix*, hot seat*, hot water*, pickle*, skeleton in the closet*.

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Another word for embarrassment

noun

Self-conscious distress:
abashment, chagrin, confusion, discomfiture, discomposure. See pain
A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate:
excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit. See excess

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They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
It had been nearly a month of empty Thursday nights since his no-show session with Ethel Rosewater and the beautiful Betty from Boise was offering an effective way to make sure that embarrassment was a temporary happening.
I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.
Alex had endured a lot of embarrassment because of the relationship between his mother and biological father – and now this.
Unshed tears of embarrassment were starting to burn her eyes.

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