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Embarrassment

/ɪmˈbærəsmənt/
A feeling of self-consciousness or shame, often due to awkward situations or social mistakes

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Examples:

I am too well acquainted with affairs to feel any embarrassment.

And two chops set before three people are productive of embarrassment.

Anne looked away from him in embarrassment.

Etymology:

etymology
Derived from the French word embarrasser, which means to constrain or to entangle, and first used in English in the late 17th century.

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