mortifying

Example Sentences

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Mortifying, maybe, but the moral of the story is that the right couple will unabashedly champion you in ways you wouldn’t expect.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

Vice President Joe Biden seems eager to make a third attempt at winning the top job, with an eye toward forever cementing his role as America’s Mortifying Uncle.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2015

Mortifying as it is to me to avow this, I began to get disenchanted, because I did not find among these people any thing of the sort which I had expected. 

From What to Do? by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Mortifying enough, of course, but he was in the full swing of his prosperity, and could soon have replaced it.

From The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry

Mortifying as this repulse must have been to a lady of her stately disposition, she did not relinquish her aim, but endeavoured to interest the commodore's counsellors and adherents in her cause.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)