- Embarrassment - The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness;
arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of
a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. - Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to
understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires
skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard
enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a
science; difficulties in theology. - A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an
objection; a cavil. - Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs;
-- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
- Make ashamed - Shame - Show someone up - Show up - To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action
by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to
discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. - To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to
obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed. - To involve in difficulties concerning money matters;
to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said
of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed
when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
- Immodest - Without embarrassment - Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced;
insensible to disgrace. - Indicating want of modesty, or sensibility to disgrace;
indecent; as, a shameless picture or poem.