Collocations withembarrassment
These are words often used in combination withembarrassment.
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acute embarrassment
No person of any compassion could feel anything but acute embarrassment at visiting many of our city-centre prisons.
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embarrassment of riches
Even so, there remains an embarrassment of riches when it comes to terminology.
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feeling of embarrassment
I think that this feeling of embarrassment is exaggerated.
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political embarrassment
Stragglers might be of some political embarrassment but are not a threat to legitimacy.
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public embarrassment
This device allows compromise to occur without public embarrassment or the appearance of defeat.
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sense of embarrassment
The appearances of the party in public reflected this tangible sense of embarrassment.
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source of embarrassment
As the war progressed into its final phase, party membership became less a source of authority or prestige within the community and more and more a source of embarrassment.
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