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Meanings of slight embarrassment in English

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Usage of slight embarrassment in English
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The boys laughed with slight embarrassment and Ofer glanced awkwardly at Ora.
To the end of the land
2
For the first time the Right Bower exhibited some slight embarrassment.
On the Frontier
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A slight embarrassment was evidenced in her countenance as I made this request.
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
4
I was, answered Stephen Watson, in a tone of slight embarrassment.
The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus
5
He reflected, with an air of slight embarrassment, and then asked:
The Uttermost Farthing: A Savant's Vendetta
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A slight embarrassment fell on them, and her hand slipped out of his.
The Age of Innocence
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Some slight embarrassment followed, an exchange of anxious and evil glances.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1
8
She smiled with a slight embarrassment, meeting his look only for a second.
New Grub Street
9
The Prince of Baireuth places me in no slight embarrassment by this early visit.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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The persistence of Antagoras had made the dilemma of no slight embarrassment to Pausanias.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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This note-taking-sometimes a slight embarrassment to the preacher-wasa great help to the hearer.
Excellent Women
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She ducked her head in slight embarrassment and said nothing.
Spells
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He felt only a slight embarrassment at his mental blackout.
The Fountains of Paradise
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The statement sounded very pleasant, in spite of the slight embarrassment caused by the inquiry.
The House Behind the Cedars
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His two physicians felt some slight embarrassment when called upon to fill in his certificate.
Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
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She colored and laughed to hide her slight embarrassment.
When A Man's A Man
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