Cryptic crossword clue
Wearing flowery red motif, one is embarrassed 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word MORTIFIED

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The straight part
We know that "embarrassed" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case embarrassed = mortified.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does MORTIFIED mean?

MORTIFIED adjective
  1. Acutely embarrassed.
MORTIFIED verb
  1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
  2. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
  3. To kill.
  4. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  5. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  6. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  7. To grant in mortmain.
  8. To lose vitality.
  9. To gangrene.
  10. To be subdued.

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