Embarras

or Em·barrass

[ am-braw ]

noun

1. a river in E Illinois, flowing S and SE to the Wabash River. 185 miles (298 km) long.

Example Sentences

I can’t wait until we win again in 2020 to further embarras your profession # FakeNews”

From The Guardian

You’ll thin your apple trees; stock up on jam jars for fragrant bottled apricots, storage racks for surplus quinces, and freezer bags for your embarras de sweet corn richesse, because there’s nothing worse than a glut.

From The New Yorker

Court documents say Small hid his wife’s body in an attic for about two days before taking it to Coles County, dismembering it and tossing it into the Embarras and Vermillion rivers.

From Washington Times

A hiker found his body less than a year later along the Embarras River near the town of Newton.

From Washington Times

In the course of the 17th century and particularly in its final decades, that word, embarras, which until then had meant “embarrassment” or “confusion,” acquired a new meaning: “The encounter in a street of several things that block each other’s way.”

From Slate