mortifying
1.a mortifying penance
2.a mortifying defeat
3.To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying.
4.What is most mortifying of all is that it is chance - simply a barbarous, lagging chance.
5.I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey without very mortifying reflections
6.the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles; it was mortifying to know he had heard every word.
7.Due to his underestimation, Marshal Bush met his mortifying defeat in the decisive battle after most of his men were mowed down in an ambush.
8.Nevertheless, he felt exactly like a lazy student who is not prepared for his lessons and to be asked to answer a question by the teacher in class. Nothing could be more mortifying than this.
9.This paper analyzes Augustine & his Confessions by means of an aesthetic approach, expounds the spirit of life from the angles of the belief collapse & the appealing to God, the evil of happy life & mortifying piety, and reveals the miserable consciousness of the Western people at the Middle Ages.
