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embarrassed

Definition for embarrassed

adjective as in in social difficulties

Strongest match

ashamed

adjective as in in financial difficulties

Strong matches

bankrupt, straitened

Weak matches

in debt, insolvent, poor

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Example Sentences

Natalia, a gymnast who saved her mother’s childhood Bible from the flames, was embarrassed too.

"All are scared, angry, embarrassed — just like so many across the country," she told Salon.

From Salon

There’s that Steinbeck quote about people viewing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires — I’m more important than I am at my current station of life — and I feel like that’s come back.

“I was ready to embrace this side of myself I’d always been a bit embarrassed of in the past.”

Jodi, from Hull, said she felt "so embarrassed and quite trapped" on her first lesson when her instructor got out of his car and urinated in front of her.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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