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  • adjective Capable of being embarrassed.

Etymologies

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From embarrass +‎ -able.

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Examples

  • I even blush I'm a long way from embarrassable normally.

    Perfume? Really? Marina Geigert 2007

  • It’s a quick hit, and it corrals the audience on the side of smugness; but its victories are Pyrrhic, and it tends to fizzle out unless held in by a plot—as it was in “Fawlty Towers,” which, from its base on the English seaside, fathomed the most embarrassable race on earth.

    Thursday Night Links « Gerry Canavan 2009

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