mortifying

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And how mortifying would it be if Mr. Kemp’s guy made the runoff and won?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

Mr Holliday used to really embarrass me because I would play with the boys and girls in school and he would tell all the boys to pass to me, but that was mortifying for me.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025

The play, which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, seems like it could have been commissioned to skewer this destructive, benighted and completely mortifying anti-science moment.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

“Irene Blythe says she witnessed you and Russell in a . . .” The words died in her mouth, apparently too mortifying to say aloud.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu