embarrassment

IPA: ɪmbˈɛrʌsmʌnt

A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty
(medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
(dated) Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.

Examples of "embarrassment" in Sentences

What's an embarrassment is the MN State GOP making such a statement.
The only embarrassment is the GOP's continued hypocrisy and their obstructionist tactics.
Governor Sanford's greatest self-embarrassment is his self-righteous condemnation of others 'behavior.
She's from Idaho, not Alaska and we can be thankful one more political embarrassment is off the stage, hopefully sue
I think when Chesterton wrote that, if someone were to actually say, "That is wicked," the Journalists would shuffle their feet in embarrassment, but generally not dispute the obvious truth.
But while keeping up the charade may be saving the ECB some short-term embarrassment, its existing policies of propping up insolvent banks and governments are only increasing the cost of the euro-zone crisis in the long term.
If you were a competent analyst and were told that by a company, would you (a) crawl into a hole in embarrassment at being a simpleton and give the company you couldn't understand a glowing rating; or (b) downgrade the company?
After President Obama forgave Lieberman for attacking his character and good intentions during 2008 presidential campaign, especially in light of Democratic Legislatures preference to terminate Lieberman's political career, the embarrassment is solely on "Joe the Jerk" Lieberman.