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mortification
noun as in humiliation
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The last bell saved them from possible mortification.
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To us, it sounds comically quaint; Queen Victoria would have plotzed from mortification.
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Maybe it was the sense of hopelessness and mortification that made them throw caution, and inferiority, to the wind.
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Unless you like having your child die from mortification before your very eyes.
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None of the above appear in the film, though we see hints of her bodily mortifications and one hungover instance of virtuoso vomiting.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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