mortifying
About 0.21 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of mortify
- adjective Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
- noun mortification; abstinence
mortifyings of the flesh
Similar words
embarrassing humiliating demeaning humbling undignified unpleasant cringeworthy cringy shameful cringeful
Often followed by
to the and of as experience his reflection that
Word family
mortifyingly
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