as in humiliating
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as in embarrassing
to throw into a state of self-conscious distress
was mortified by her children's atrocious manners
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Here’s what its workers think of Trump’s tariffs The Colombian government had to do a humiliating about-face that month after President Gustavo Petro blocked two American military planes carrying Colombian deportees from entering his country.—
Rafael Romo, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025
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The pain was felt most acutely in their Wild Card loss to the Buccaneers, a humiliating 32-9 defeat that came so close to costing Sirianni his job.—
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The first was in a degrading context: Brown University’s annual Spring Weekend, in 2013.—
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In the case of the white-telephone-cord purse, Curran sniffed out the presence of plasticizers that typically emerge from degrading PVC—a useful alarm bell for staff who may want to store the purse in a sealed container.—
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The principal accused him of disrupting his Middleborough Middle School and of demeaning LGBTQ students.—
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Her mother, a day laborer who had to leave school at age 10 to work, cleaned houses under the demeaning conditions of the Jim Crow era: Butler sometimes accompanied her mom on the job, where they were required to enter homes through back doors.—
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“Mortifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortifying. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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