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mortifying
adjective as in devastating
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- annihilating
- desolating
adjective as in embarrassing
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adjective as in off
adjective as in shameful
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For 150 years its mortifying confusions have been swept under the carpet with the court adjudication “stubborn child.”
This of course exposed me to the mortifying risk of having my requests remain unanswered or worse, turned down.
I'll share one that may not be the biggest lie I've ever told, but is certainly the most mortifying.
Like us, their output ranges from the mundane to the mortifying.
It was such a damper as to be most mortifying to an enthusiastic girl, and she drew into herself in a moment.
The English, fearing a ruse, continued to stand to their arms till their scouts confirmed the mortifying intelligence.
There have been mortifying failures, but there have been positive successes in the eleven years.
Besides, the mortifying experience at the Paris Exposition has dampened even my perennially youthful enthusiasm.
Certainly it was a mortifying matter for all concerned, and not least for Cluny; the more credit that he took it as he did.
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On this page you'll find 130 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mortifying, such as: calamitous, destructive, disastrous, overwhelming, annihilating, and null.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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