(n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
(n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(2) This has been infrequently reported to occur during general anesthesia and to cause respiratory embarrassment, representing a significant hazard.
(3) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(4) Updated at 1.57am GMT 1.55am GMT Andrew Quinn (@AndrewEQuinn) @ busfield @ lengeldavid @ gdnussports Why's it embarrassing?
(5) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(6) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(7) "I'm not at all embarrassed about being gay, it's just that I don't particularly want the first or only thing that people associate me with to be that I'm gay."
(8) Many have degrees or work in professional fields, and feel embarrassed by the fact they have become a victim of fraud.
(9) Earlier this fall the skier Bode Miller was one of the few American athletes to speak out against the Russian law, calling it "absolutely embarrassing".
(10) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
(11) He will insist "government should stop feeling embarrassed about the need for more patriotism in our economic policy.
(12) Asked whether the loss of control of the streets was embarrassing, Sir Paul replied: "Well the one thing I would say is that it must have been an awful time for the people trying to go about their daily business in those buildings.
(13) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(14) Satisfaction with agency performance remained at a high level and feelings of embarrassment generally declined.
(15) Fail, and the nation’s rulers face embarrassment in front of a television audience of more than a billion.
(16) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(17) He looks embarrassed – whether it's at the albums themselves or his intolerance of them, I'm not sure.
(18) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
(19) Britain's most senior police officer was tonight forced to admit he was "embarrassed" that his officers had lost control of the capital's streets in scenes reminiscent of last year's G20 demonstration.
(20) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
Puzzlement
Definition:
(n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(2) His comments have drawn puzzlement from bankers familiar with the financing of the presidential candidate’s business empire.
(3) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
(4) Now, when I talk with some others who were there that day, we share a certain kind of puzzlement over something we’ve noticed: many people who only experienced the attacks on television want revenge much more than my friends and I do.
(5) Once his eyes opened, he stared at the sun with a deep unearthly puzzlement and then at the sky around the sun.
(6) However, after the decision of the Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, caused puzzlement at the Welsh club there is a recognition that the Scot's position is now precarious.
(7) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
(8) All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject.
(9) We’ve really enjoyed it.” Martin O’Neill, the Republic of Ireland manager, expressed puzzlement at Wales’s ascent from pot six of the World Cup qualifying draw alongside the minnows four years ago.
(10) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
(11) They really could have just restructured at DHS how the NCCIC works to really move threats together in a comprehensive fashion, and a real-time fashion, where you could actually get some value out of it,” said Tony Cole, a top executive at the cybersecurity firm FireEye, who said he was hearing similar puzzlement from industry leaders about the new center.
(12) A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
(13) This is a common source of puzzlement amongst some, but let me solve this apparent conundrum.
(14) Talking to developers ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco, one detects a sense both of puzzlement and excitement.
(15) His all-embracing attitudes caused widespread puzzlement.
(16) The puzzlement extends to British officials and business.
(17) Kenyatta's assertion is likely to cause puzzlement.
(18) There was puzzlement at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
(19) What was interesting was how present and real the bull felt to me, how close the animal's pain and puzzlement was.
(20) Within the country, the mood was one of puzzlement – and abandonment.