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In other words, it’s mortifyingly, confoundingly singular — and, for him at least, unknowable.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Their scorched-earth/savior dynamic quickly spirals, and somewhat mortifyingly, they are not alone.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

I was so frustrated that I started — mortifyingly enough — crying at the bar.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2018

And yet, I was honestly, genuinely, mortifyingly bad.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2014

They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, "let poor Ellen find her own level"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and "people who wrote" celebrated their untidy rites.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith