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morto

American  
[mawr-toh] / ˈmɔr toʊ /

adjective

  1. Slang. (in Ireland) mortified or mortifying; extremely embarrassed or embarrassing.


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Then, from the raised dais, he descried the tumult at the choir gates, whilst cries of "Il Giuliano e morto" reached his ears!

From The Tragedies of the Medici by Staley, Edgcumbe

“So the notary began, touching a lute: “‘Giorgi hà morto l’huomo.’

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Las carreros diouyon gemi, Tan belo morto bay sourti!

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

La vidvino ne havis pli ol kvardek jarojn, sed Namezo rimarkis ke vespere, post la taga laboro, ŝi ŝajnis tute lacega, kaj kelkajn jarojn post la morto de sia edzo ŝi ekmaljuniĝis.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

And all around toward Mestre and Treviso and Torcello; to San Pietro di Castello and the grim walls of the arsenal, the mare morto heaved gently and sighed.

From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert

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