Sentence examples for actively embarrassed from inspiring English sources

Perhaps we should be cheered that only one in five children surveyed by the National Literacy Trust said they would be actively embarrassed to be caught with a book but it is a grim consolation indeed to know that most of them don't read from indifference rather than active repulsion.

After spending much of our time last week discussing the nightmare that is the Eastern Conference, this week's column was planning to be almost exclusively about the Western Conference and basketball teams that don't actively embarrass the sport.

For example, the argument that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act violates the US constitution was actively embarrassing, but that didn't stop the US supreme court from joining the Republican Party's ongoing campaign of voter suppression.

She said when she became vocal about Oxy's sexual violence policies, administrators accused her of "actively seeking to embarrass the college".

Policy proposals were actively debated as the problem of suicide embarrassed Sri Lanka.

Embarrassed silence.

Probably embarrassed.

Were we embarrassed?

Microsoft should be embarrassed.

You embarrassed of AT&T?

We shouldn't be embarrassed.