Example Sentences

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I am naturally very cautious and considerate in choosing my words, so these incidents have been mortifying for me.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2021

“It would have been mortifying, but every infringement of privacy is sort of liberating,” he says now.

From Forbes • Feb. 21, 2014

There was little doubt that had the Supreme Court overturned his reform, it would have been mortifying.

From Economist • Jun. 28, 2012

Indeed, recent years have been mortifying to the Bolshoi's traditionalists.

From Time • Oct. 29, 2011

There have been mortifying failures, but there have been positive successes in the eleven years.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Betts, Lillian William