mortifying

Example Sentences

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Mortifying, maybe, but the moral of the story is that the right couple will unabashedly champion you in ways you wouldn’t expect.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Vice President Joe Biden seems eager to make a third attempt at winning the top job, with an eye toward forever cementing his role as America’s Mortifying Uncle.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2015

Mortifying them means restraining them and overcoming them so that they have less power to lead us into sin.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 3 by Anonymous

Mortifying as this repulse must have been to a lady of her stately disposition, she did not relinquish her aim, but endeavoured to interest the commodore's counsellors and adherents in her cause.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Mortifying as these circumstances were they produced less painful sensations than we experienced in the evening by the refusal of Akaitcho to accompany us in the proposed descent of the Copper-Mine River.

From The Journey to the Polar Sea by Franklin, John