mortifying

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She said that as a dyscalculic student that was a "really humiliating and mortifying experience".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

You should, and when you win, I’m sure your acceptance speech will be somewhat mortifying for your kids, so two wins.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 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

Listening to the European golfers plead with fans to not chuck beers at a colleague’s spouse was mortifying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

“Irene Blythe says she witnessed you and Russell in a . . .” The words died in her mouth, apparently too mortifying to say aloud.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu