EMBARRASSMENT

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embarrassment substantiv

1. încurcătură, zăpăceală; jenă, stinghereală, fâstâcire, complicaţii.

2. jenă financiară.

3. dificultate, impediment.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Yes,” he replied, and without the smallest apparent embarrassment.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

From Willoughby their expression was at first held back, by the embarrassment which the remembrance of his assistance created.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I, on the contrary, became more cheerful, and took fresh courage: these last words gave me an insight as to where the difficulty lay; and as it was no difficulty with me, I felt quite relieved from my previous embarrassment.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The whole incident left a most ugly impression upon my mind, and I was not sorry next day to leave Donnithorpe behind me, for I felt that my presence must be a source of embarrassment to my friend.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A feeling of extreme embarrassment.

(Humiliation, NCI Thesaurus)

What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Desirous of Mr. Morland's assistance, as well in giving encouragement, as in finding conversation for her guest, whose embarrassment on his father's account she earnestly pitied, Mrs. Morland had very early dispatched one of the children to summon him; but Mr. Morland was from home—and being thus without any support, at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

They had previously known embarrassments enough to try the friendship of their friends, and to prove that Mr Elliot's had better not be tried; but it was not till his death that the wretched state of his affairs was fully known.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He staid of course, and Edmund had then ample opportunity for observing how he sped with Fanny, and what degree of immediate encouragement for him might be extracted from her manners; and it was so little, so very, very little—every chance, every possibility of it, resting upon her embarrassment only; if there was not hope in her confusion, there was hope in nothing else—that he was almost ready to wonder at his friend's perseverance.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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