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

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

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

He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson