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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having a feeling of shameful discomfort.
  2. v. Simple past tense and past participle of embarrass.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. feeling uneasily or unpleasantly self-conscious due to some event or circumstance.
  2. adj. feeling inferior or unworthy and hence unpleasantly self-conscious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
  2. adj. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Etymologies

  1. From embarrass + -ed. The adjective is an extension of the past participle. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Because the word embarrassed was her middle name, Charlotte wouldnt wish public humiliation on her worst enemy.”

    Simon & Schuster: Beacon Street Girls: Lake Rescue

  • “He never said it aloud, but I knew the name embarrassed him.”

    Simon & Schuster: Oh My Goth

  • “I laughed out loud at the dark humor, though I could not tell you why exactly, leaving the speaker of the term embarrassed when she realized I had heard her.”

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  • “Many years ago Ronald Reagan's pollster talked after Watergate about what he called the embarrassed Republican vote: many Republicans who chose to stay home rather than vote for their party.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2006

  • “The way for the Nationals to stop getting embarrassed is to start winning, Mark Zuckerman says.”

    The Washington Post: Collin Balester provides some relief

  • “While the Mount Holyoke grads were meeting in embarrassed little encounter groups to discuss possibly putting a mirror down there, Brown was telling her readers to embrace all aspects of their body, including the various functions and products of the alimentary tract.”

    Sex and the Married Man

  • “At Turin 's Sonia Rossi Gallery stand, Annika Str ö m, who has also produced a performance piece for the fair in which 10 men are wandering around pretending to be embarrassed, is showing two identical watercolor posters which read: buy one get one free.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Overloading at Frieze

  • “I was so stinkin 'embarrassed that a golf cart full of Secret Service guys had to pull up beside me," she said of the fall.”

    Palin confident she can outrun Obama

  • “` ` I was embarrassed from the standpoint of our organization and everything we stand for.”

    USATODAY.com

  • “At least six of them used the word embarrassed, probably more.”

    The Washington Post: Which Monday night blowout was worse

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