- present participle of mortify.
mortifying
Example Sentences
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You should, and when you win, I’m sure your acceptance speech will be somewhat mortifying for your kids, so two wins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
And then enough time passed that it began to feel slightly mortifying to say, “Hi, I realize I should have introduced myself years ago, but here I am!”
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026
On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the DOJ’s rather mortifying confession and its implications for the broader battle over Trump’s federalization of the Guard.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
Listening to the European golfers plead with fans to not chuck beers at a colleague’s spouse was mortifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
