Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of extricating, or the state of being extricated, from embarrassment, or from anything that embarrasses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Freedom or
relief fromimpediment orperplexity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that extricates you from embarrassment
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many people had never heard these words spoken before an audience—by a guy in a Hindu tunic yet—and there was an odd turn of truth, a sense of unleashing perhaps, or disembarrassment.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Many people had never heard these words spoken before an audience—by a guy in a Hindu tunic yet—and there was an odd turn of truth, a sense of unleashing perhaps, or disembarrassment.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Many people had never heard these words spoken before an audience—by a guy in a Hindu tunic yet—and there was an odd turn of truth, a sense of unleashing perhaps, or disembarrassment.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It was amusing to see with what carelessness and disembarrassment he now accosted travellers, and how boldly he pronounced the name of the village where his cousin resided, without hesitation or disguise.
Chapter XVII 1909
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Jose assured them with an air of perfect disembarrassment that he knew nothing of any Indian fugitive.
Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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