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Recent Examples of mortification Hong again employs the long table-time takes that have witnessed the mortification of so many drunken characters, this time skewering Donghwa. Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025 Whetstone said the power was with the poster and encouraged her mother to be remorseful, express mortification with her actions and work to make amends. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025 Blanding is suing for damages such as stress, humiliation, embarrassment, outrage, mental anguish, fear and mortification, as well as emotional, economic and non-economic damages. Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025 The most delightful of all mortifications is the idea that life, as Carl Jung said, really does begin at 40. Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mortification
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Noun
  • The scandal resulted in major embarrassment to the royal family and effectively ended her official royal role.
    Ashley Hume , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Teens say access to period products has gotten better, but their menstrual cycles are still a source of embarrassment.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The abrupt departure stunned the crowd, prompting confusion both in the audience and among his bandmates.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Allen has always had a catholic approach to musical style, and that attitude serves the emotional spectrum of West End Girl well, with the stages of relationship grief and personal humiliation echoed by the music surrounding her.
    Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The lawsuit draws attention to the emotional harm and humiliation caused by such images.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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