mortify
verb (used with object)
to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
mortifyingly
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a word derived from
mortify.
Example Sentences
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The culture trap about pageants is that they were often treated like a societal measuring stick — and came up dissonantly, mortifyingly short.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
In other words, it’s mortifyingly, confoundingly singular — and, for him at least, unknowable.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
In particular, its depiction of the classes its titular contract killer takes feels mortifyingly familiar, a specific and ever-so-slightly exaggerated version of the real, desperate thing.
From Slate ● May 1, 2018
I tell him about an interview I did with the film-maker Tony Kaye, who was mortifyingly embarrassed of his ad career.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Simply because she was over-excited and over-tired, and her spirit was still so mortifyingly unable to rise superior to the weakness of her tiresome flesh.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
