e-barrassment
nounEtymology Blend of email + embarrassment. See e-.
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Internet, Informal, Neologism Humiliation as a result of sending an email with embarrassing mistakes.
- yeah, it's e-barrassment. like e-mail.2007 April 10, “1st place baby!”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves (Usenet):
- Email etiquette and the risky reply-all were highlighted as one Australian lawyer made a major email faux pas, leading to his sacking.2012 March 3, “From the vault: Aussie lawyer's "e-barrassment" over email faux pas”, in Lawyers Weekly, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2022:
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- How to prevent 'e-barrassment'.2015 June 23, Hayley Tsukayama, “Ever send an e-mail you wish you could take back? Now, in Gmail, you can.”, in Washington Post:
- You know what the English language needs? A word for the hot, sickening feeling you get when you accidentally hit "Reply All," subsequently broadcasting a private message to a much larger group. Maybe we should call it e-barrassment. Or forwardboding. Or Sents insensibility.2019 January 17, David Pogue, “How to Handle the Dreaded 'Reply All Moment'”, in New York Times: