mortifyingly
- 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
And yet, I was honestly, genuinely, mortifyingly bad.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2014
It's fashionable to say that football nowadays is nonsense, but that's not quite so, though mortifyingly many things about it are revoltingly nonsensical.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013
There Georges De Grapion settled, with the laudable determination to make a fresh start against the mortifyingly numerous Grandissimes.
From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington
