mortifying

How To Use mortifying In A Sentence

• How do you quantify the value of these mortifying but essential experiences? Times, Sunday Times
• Failure that is so mortifying and so devastating that it makes you try to become invisible.
• To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
• ‘Yeah… it's mortifying to know what happened to him’, Maria remarked.
• But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.
• To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
• The gospel of Christ is not accommodated to the fain fancies and lusts of men, to gratify their appetites and passions; but, on the contrary, it was designed for the mortifying of their corrupt affections, and delivering them from the power of fancy, that they might be brought under the power of faith. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• [13] I passed thro that city & should like to see his hymn upon the occasion & if there be any good in it, put it in a note. how mortifying is this confinement of yours — I had planned so many pleasant walks to be made so much more pleasant by conversation. for I have much to tell thee. much to say of the odd things we saw upon our journey Much of the dirt & vermin that annoyd us. Letter 165
• After lunch, a rather mortifying family tradition. They do things differently in bourgeois bohemia.