- present participle of mortify.
mortifying
Example Sentences
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A child interrupting a meeting became, depending on the meeting, either completely understandable or still mortifying.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
One particularly mortifying episode from the past haunts Hally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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
Bethe’s stark conclusion that “it seems useless to build cyclotrons of larger proportions than the existing ones” appeared at a delicate and potentially mortifying moment for the Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
