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Meanings of mortifying in English

Causing awareness of your shortcomings.

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Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.

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Examples for "embarrassing"
Examples for "embarrassing"
1
I can't seem to stop myself answering everything they ask, however embarrassing.
The Atrocity Archives
2
The military has taken deep and embarrassing cuts: aircraft carriers without aircraft.
The Guardian
3
Five years ago there were several embarrassing auto burglaries from the lot.
The incumbent
4
Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.
Tell the Wolves I’m Home
5
I'd say that's a very serious and embarrassing error for everybody responsible.
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Usage of mortifying in English
1
In any case, not friending people won't protect you from mortifying revelations.
Wired
2
Just when I thought this couldn't be any more mortifying, I thought.
She, myself & i
3
And then came the events of November and Andrew's obtuse, mortifying interview.
News.com.au
4
The real cause of her refusal is more serious and more mortifying.
A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois') — Volume 3
5
Lord, when are You going to deliver me from this mortifying dream?
Unfinished desires: a novel
6
The cause was too afflicting and too mortifying not to overwhelm you.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
7
Trying on clothes can be an awesome experience or a mortifying one.
Wired
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After the first fright, I was really amused, notwithstanding the mortifying situation.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories
9
Both are sensitive, and the game of mortifying one another goes on.
Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
10
Even the quiet with which he had escaped was a mortifying recollection.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
11
He was probably hoping I'd trip and fall or something equally mortifying.
I'm in No Mood for Love
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This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
13
Mr -was a singular and felicitous exception to this mortifying rule.
Rattlin the Reefer
14
The discovery that, after all, they are male countenances is quite mortifying.
Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
15
This interview is one of the most peculiarly mortifying he's ever had.
The sealed letter
16
How mortifying and heart-sickening to the intellectual, the artless, the fallen fair!
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
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