mortifying
Example Sentences
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Imagine how mortifying it would be if anyone ever read your diary.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
Little did I know this would turn out to be equal parts amazing and mortifying.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025
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
It was their most mortifying failure since losing 5-0 against Artmedia Bratislava 20 years ago.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025
There’s just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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