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At a high school basketball game, for example, she will VERY loudly criticize a player, to the mortification of those sitting next to her.
CAROLYN HAX: HE’S A GREAT GUY, EXCEPT FOR THE BIGOTRYCAROLYN HAXDECEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTBernard sat thinking for a long time; at first with a good deal of mortification—at last with a good deal of bitterness.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESOn the other hand, his feet are so cold from the artery being severed that they anticipate mortification.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONTwo years before her death Mrs. Otis was glad to bury her mortification and misery in Rosewater.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONA short triumph will be followed by a deep mortification, and the selfishness of their aims defeats itself.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYWe might as well run a hospital on the plan of never consenting to admit any case until mortification had set in!
ENGLISH POOR LAW POLICYSIDNEY WEBBHis chagrin, his wounded self-love, his mortification at the unexpected turn of affairs unnerved him.
THE STORY OF MOSCOWWIRT GERRAREThe steel could not be found and extracted, and signs of mortification set in, so that the doctors gave up hope.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMYes, cried; not rivers and freshets of woe, but small brooks and streamlets of helpless mortification.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINAnd we find that in the same spot he subsequently underwent mortification, not for forty days only, but for six years.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANWORDS RELATED TO MORTIFICATION
- adulteration
- atrophy
- blight
- caries
- consumption
- corrosion
- crumbling
- decadence
- decline
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrepitude
- degeneracy
- degeneration
- depreciation
- deterioration
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disrepair
- dissolution
- downfall
- dying
- extinction
- fading
- failing
- gangrene
- impairment
- mortification
- perishing
- putrefaction
- putrescence
- putridity
- putridness
- rot
- rotting
- ruin
- ruination
- rust
- senescence
- spoilage
- spoilation
- wasting
- wasting away
- withering
- abasement
- abjection
- abjectness
- blahs
- bleakness
- blue funk
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- desperation
- despondency
- disconsolation
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- ennui
- gloom
- gloominess
- heaviness of heart
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- melancholia
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- qualm
- sadness
- sorrow
- the blues
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vapors
- woefulness
- worry
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.