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mortification
noun as in humiliation
Example Sentences
At a high school basketball game, for example, she will VERY loudly criticize a player, to the mortification of those sitting next to her.
“Hey, muffins,” he calls to his children, with a “wince of mortification” at the whole scene.
Bernard sat thinking for a long time; at first with a good deal of mortification—at last with a good deal of bitterness.
On the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.
Two years before her death Mrs. Otis was glad to bury her mortification and misery in Rosewater.
A short triumph will be followed by a deep mortification, and the selfishness of their aims defeats itself.
We might as well run a hospital on the plan of never consenting to admit any case until mortification had set in!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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