vergonha alheia
Portuguese
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Noun
editvergonha alheia f (uncountable)
- cringe; shame felt for actions done by someone else; vicarious embarrassment, secondhand embarrassment
- Isso me dá vergonha alheia. ― This gives me secondhand embarassment.
Further reading
edit- “vergonha alheia”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024