Public Embarrassment

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
PE
Pronunciation
/ˈpəblɪk ɪmˈbɛrəsmənt/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. She submitted that the petitioner should be entitled to damages for public embarrassment.
  2. This has often resulted in a public challenge which hackers are always itching to accept, with the site owner having to later deal with a defaced application and public embarrassment.
  3. The expansion into non-core activities was one of the basic factors that led to the company's public embarrassment.
  4. Many-a-times people have ended up using high-sounding words inappropriately only to face public embarrassment.
  5. When these issues are not surfaced before the CEO is hired, the result can be both public embarrassment – for the company and the executives from other companies that serve on its board – and a jolt to shareholder and employee confidence in leadership.

Other meanings of PE