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Mortifyingly   Listen
adverb
Mortifyingly  adv.  In a mortifying manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Mortifyingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... fancy for the wild America no longer there Long breath was not his; he could not write a novel Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other Now death has come to join its vague conjectures Offers mortifyingly mean, and others insultingly vague Only one concerned who was quite unconcerned So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California Wrote them first and last ...
— Widger's Quotations from the Works of William Dean Howells • David Widger

... Mrs. Manson Mingott, had been unable to defend her refusal to return to her husband. The Mingotts had not proclaimed their disapproval aloud: their sense of solidarity was too strong. They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, "let poor Ellen find her own level"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and "people who wrote" celebrated their untidy rites. It was incredible, but it was a fact, that Ellen, in spite of all her opportunities ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton



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