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- adverb In a mortifying manner.
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- adverb In a
mortifying manner; so as to cause greatembarrassment .
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Examples
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This would be 'mortifyingly' embarrassing for anyone but I was in such a state of panic that I couldn't care less.
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If she notes that the tangent about the construction of identity, or the one about learning to put condoms on cucumbers, are respectively pseudo-intellectual and mortifyingly juvenile?
Suzanne Morrison: Second Book, First Draft: Banish the Editor Suzanne Morrison 2011
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That's mortifyingly sad to me and probably thousands of other writers who've spent years collecting stories that we were sure would one day be retrieved from the slush pile and read by someone who actually likes to read and who might be excited by the prospect of finding new literary talent, instead of just waiting like a scavenger to throw lipstick on the latest pig to come out of the celebrity barn.
Jane Devin: A Writer's Rant About Simon & Schuster's Dip Into the Celebrity Cesspool Jane Devin 2011
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Off for the summer to drama school in Yorkshire, Tallulah is much less concerned about acting than she is with her mortifyingly long legs and minuscule "lady bumps."
Misty Moors and Gothic Séances Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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This was ours to own – a materialist, ugly, violent Olympiad of lawlessness, mortifyingly laid bare for the world to see.
'We will wear the great shame of these riots for a very long time' 2011
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If she notes that the tangent about the construction of identity, or the one about learning to put condoms on cucumbers, are respectively pseudo-intellectual and mortifyingly juvenile?
Suzanne Morrison: Second Book, First Draft: Banish the Editor Suzanne Morrison 2011
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This was ours to own – a materialist, ugly, violent Olympiad of lawlessness, mortifyingly laid bare for the world to see.
UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures | Will Hutton and Henry Porter 2011
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After nearly two weeks of making calls, talking to everyone she knew, even, mortifyingly, responding to a couple postings on Craigslist, she needed cash.
Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010
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I cannot imagine having anything so mortifyingly tasteless at a wedding shower!
Otherwise Engaged 2010
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This is both immensely flattering and mortifyingly embarrassing.
Music: Culture and Celebrity Hogan, Michael 2009
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