mortifying

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She said that as a dyscalculic student that was a "really humiliating and mortifying experience".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The only thing more mortifying than a shameless stunt fight is knowing you’re shameless enough to watch it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 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

He went completely under, came up, went under again, and came up flailing and floundering with such wildness that for a few sincerely mortifying moments I thought he was drowning.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson