Examples of 'mortifying' in a sentence

Meaning of "mortifying"

Mortify (verb): To cause someone to feel embarrassed, humiliated, or ashamed by one's words or actions; to discipline oneself by denying physical desires or pleasures
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  • present participle of mortify
  • Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
  • mortification; abstinence

How to use "mortifying" in a sentence

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As our tragic and mortifying first semester.
That was not the least bit mortifying.
This concludes our mortifying look at fitting in.
I spent all autumn fasting and mortifying.
In the face of mortifying failures and discouragements.
Losing a son to maladies is already mortifying enough.
How mortifying it is to have a son who want to kill me.
Two of them are just too mortifying to display.
This mortifying situation continued.
Francis had to experience many mortifying contradictions.
Be ingenious in mortifying yourself and in breaking your own will.
This is embarrassing and a little mortifying.
I am gonna do something mortifying and tank this date.
Which is why passing out there was so utterly mortifying.
This is extremely mortifying for my client.

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But the lack of an audience is mortifying.
Easily the most mortifying moment of my life to date.
And that would be super mortifying.
Nothing is more mortifying than dooplercating.
This whole situation is mortifying.
An incident this mortifying can make or break a couple.
I walked in on the two of you in much more mortifying circumstances.
Shopping is mortifying because shopping is war.
You are not in danger of mortifying yourself.
It is so mortifying to hear these words.
I always assumed the whole thing was just a mortifying memory.
Would have been mortifying without you.
I wonder that thou goest about to apply a moral medicine to a mortifying mischief.
But none so in such mortifying circumstances.
The thought of creepy crawlers residing in your belly can be a mortifying thought.
It must be pure mortifying for you.
I find talking about my art frustratingly tedious and talking about myself a wholly mortifying experience.
I wrote about the most mortifying day of my life.
Being on TV like that must have been mortifying.
It would be mortifying to stay silent.
The entire thing was mortifying.
That was mortifying for you.
This whole situationis mortifying.
This concludes another mortifying look at awkward teenage love.
All of these things are mortifying.
Totally mortifying to him.
How humiliating and mortifying.
This concludes our mortifying look at kids and pop culture.
This was much less mortifying.
An MRI scan and a mortifying biopsy confirmed my distrusts.
Calling it off would be mortifying.
And this concludes our mortifying look at awkward teenage love.
This is not going to be mortifying.
You are mortifying me.
Wisdom can be acquired only by renouncing and mortifying the flesh.

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