as in embarrassment
the emotional state of being made self-consciously uncomfortable
the mortification of being dumped the night before the prom
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That’s when my cheeks started to burn; mortification saturated my body.
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Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification.
—Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Sylvie saves everyone from further mortification by picking up the check.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
What Ventura alleges is more harrowing than anything in the years of cavalier gossip-page and forum rumors about the pair: grievous harm and mortification even as Diddy made bubbly late-night and daytime television appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
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Ariela Gittlen, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification.
—Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
Sylvie saves everyone from further mortification by picking up the check.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
What Ventura alleges is more harrowing than anything in the years of cavalier gossip-page and forum rumors about the pair: grievous harm and mortification even as Diddy made bubbly late-night and daytime television appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2024
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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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