Thesaurus / mortifying
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synonyms for mortifying
- awkward
- confusing
- difficult
- disconcerting
- distressing
- disturbing
- exasperating
- inconvenient
- perplexing
- puzzling
- shameful
- ticklish
- tricky
- troublesome
- troubling
- uncomfortable
- unseemly
- upsetting
- worrisome
- bewildering
- compromising
- discomfiting
- discommoding
- distracting
- rattling
- delicate
- disagreeable
- discommodious
- equivocal
- impossible
- incommodious
- inopportune
- sensitive
- sticky
- touchy
- uneasy
- unpropitious
- decomposed
- disappointing
- disheartening
- displeasing
- quiet
- slack
- sour
- turned
- bad
- low-quality
- not up to par
- not up to snuff
- poor
- putrid
- rancid
- rotten
- substandard
- unrewarding
- unsatisfactory
- dastardly
- disgraceful
- embarrassing
- flagrant
- heinous
- humiliating
- ignominious
- immoral
- indecent
- outrageous
- reprehensible
- scandalous
- shocking
- sinful
- vile
- base
- carnal
- contemptible
- corrupt
- debauched
- degrading
- diabolical
- dishonorable
- drunken
- immodest
- impure
- infamous
- intemperate
- lewd
- low
- mean
- notorious
- obscene
- opprobrious
- profligate
- reprobate
- ribald
- shaming
- unbecoming
- unclean
- unworthy
- villainous
- vulgar
- wicked
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How to use mortifying in a sentence
It was such a damper as to be most mortifying to an enthusiastic girl, and she drew into herself in a moment.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEThe English, fearing a ruse, continued to stand to their arms till their scouts confirmed the mortifying intelligence.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONThere have been mortifying failures, but there have been positive successes in the eleven years.
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTSBesides, the mortifying experience at the Paris Exposition has dampened even my perennially youthful enthusiasm.
IN SEARCH OF THE UNKNOWNROBERT W. CHAMBERSCertainly it was a mortifying matter for all concerned, and not least for Cluny; the more credit that he took it as he did.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - SWANSTON EDITION VOL. 10 (OF 25)ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONMany others must have been compelled by their parents to make no complaint, in order to avoid a mortifying publicity.
THE SEXUAL LIFE OF THE CHILDALBERT MOLLThe journey from Viso to San Mateo is associated in my mind with the recollection of a most mortifying accident.
TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDII instantly complied with his request, and felt, however mortifying to my pride, that Theophilus Moncton had uttered the truth.
THE MONCTONS: A NOVEL, VOLUME ISUSANNA MOODIEHe had been reminded, by two or three mortifying losses, that the sun did not always shine on Wall street.
SEVENOAKSJ. G. HOLLANDIt was a mortifying spectacle, but from that day no officer in that division ever abandoned his colors.
THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, COMPLETEGENERAL PHILIP HENRY SHERIDANWORDS RELATED TO MORTIFYING
- awkward
- bewildering
- compromising
- confusing
- delicate
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomfiting
- discommoding
- discommodious
- disconcerting
- distracting
- distressing
- disturbing
- equivocal
- exasperating
- impossible
- incommodious
- inconvenient
- inopportune
- mortifying
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rattling
- sensitive
- shameful
- sticky
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- troublesome
- troubling
- uncomfortable
- uneasy
- unpropitious
- unseemly
- upsetting
- worrisome
- base
- carnal
- contemptible
- corrupt
- dastardly
- debauched
- degrading
- diabolical
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- drunken
- embarrassing
- flagrant
- heinous
- humiliating
- ignominious
- immodest
- immoral
- impure
- indecent
- infamous
- intemperate
- lewd
- low
- mean
- mortifying
- notorious
- obscene
- opprobrious
- outrageous
- profligate
- reprehensible
- reprobate
- ribald
- scandalous
- shaming
- shocking
- sinful
- unbecoming
- unclean
- unworthy
- vile
- villainous
- vulgar
- wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.