Synonyms for mortifying
mor·ti·fy·ing

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1. embarrassing, mortifyingadjective

   causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation

   "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"

   Synonyms:
   embarrassing, humbling, demeaning, sticky, awkward, humiliating, unenviable

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, dignified

2. demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifyingadjective

   causing awareness of your shortcomings

   "golf is a humbling game"

   Synonyms:
   embarrassing, demeaning, humbling, humiliating

   Antonyms:
   pleasant, dignified

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1. Florence Nightingale:

   By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson,:

   There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean the foolish face of praise, the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance:

   There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean the 'foolish face of praise,' the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us.

4. Samuel Johnson:

   It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

5. Logan Pearsall Smith:

   What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?