embarrassable
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embarrassable (comparative more embarrassable, superlative most embarrassable)
- Capable of being embarrassed.
- 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 144:
- But true scientists should not be embarrassable.
- 2009, Mark R. Leary, Rick H. Hoyle, Handbook of individual differences in social behavior, page 186:
- Highly embarrassable people think that they blush more frequently and more conspicuously than others...