mortifying
Example Sentences
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He just summoned a mortifying moment from his past that happened in almost the same way, but in middle school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the DOJ’s rather mortifying confession and its implications for the broader battle over Trump’s federalization of the Guard.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
Mr Holliday used to really embarrass me because I would play with the boys and girls in school and he would tell all the boys to pass to me, but that was mortifying for me.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2025
The play, which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, seems like it could have been commissioned to skewer this destructive, benighted and completely mortifying anti-science moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
