What's the difference between mortifying and mortifyingly?

Mortifying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mortify
  • (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
  • (a.) Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
  • (a.) Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (2) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
  • (3) Karen Harding later described herself as “mortified”.
  • (4) He added that the situation was equally bad for his two sons, who were mortified by the pictures published in the News of the World.
  • (5) I don't use my kids' real names on my blog and I try to avoid writing anything that would have mortified me growing up, but might they resent me later?
  • (6) Farage prefaced his comments with a prediction that he was sure the other leaders would be “mortified that I dare to even talk about it”.
  • (7) He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle .
  • (8) "A mortifying and appalling experience," said one, while another fan posted on the standup's Facebook page: "Absolutely awful.
  • (9) Smith replied: “It has been the most mortifying experience for me in this contest to have been painted as sexist, because it’s the last thing I am.
  • (10) It was mortifying, actually.” “But you decided to play into it?” I ask her.
  • (11) They’d be mortified if they were caught doing that to LGBT people or Muslims.
  • (12) The presenter apologised and said he was "mortified" by the accusation .
  • (13) After one particularly mortifying Saturday afternoon when she saw me in the Wimpy with – the horror of it all!
  • (14) The story of his life mortified him and sent him scurrying for excuses.
  • (15) My hope is that the government of Sheikh Hasina might actually be mortified by this letter.” Bangladesh must act on these brutal attacks on bloggers | Letters Read more The letter comes after the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death last week on a crowded street in Sylhet , Bangladesh’s fifth-largest city.
  • (16) I have plenty of Labour-voting friends who are happy to cheer Venezuelan nationalism, but who would be mortified to be called British nationalists.
  • (17) Read it as a teenager and you wince for poor mortified Lizzie and Jane, thinking perhaps of times when our own mother said the wrong thing.
  • (18) He added: "I am mortified to have done this, because it breaches the most basic ethical rule: don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you.
  • (19) I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.” “I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.” The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
  • (20) When Aston Pride ended this March, local people were mortified at receiving no recognition, not even a junior official from Eric Pickles's Department for Communities to visit, or a letter of praise for being the top NDC after all those years of giving so much and overcoming such obstacles.

Mortifyingly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a mortifying manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
  • (2) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
  • (3) Karen Harding later described herself as “mortified”.
  • (4) He added that the situation was equally bad for his two sons, who were mortified by the pictures published in the News of the World.
  • (5) I don't use my kids' real names on my blog and I try to avoid writing anything that would have mortified me growing up, but might they resent me later?
  • (6) Farage prefaced his comments with a prediction that he was sure the other leaders would be “mortified that I dare to even talk about it”.
  • (7) He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle .
  • (8) "A mortifying and appalling experience," said one, while another fan posted on the standup's Facebook page: "Absolutely awful.
  • (9) Smith replied: “It has been the most mortifying experience for me in this contest to have been painted as sexist, because it’s the last thing I am.
  • (10) It was mortifying, actually.” “But you decided to play into it?” I ask her.
  • (11) They’d be mortified if they were caught doing that to LGBT people or Muslims.
  • (12) The presenter apologised and said he was "mortified" by the accusation .
  • (13) After one particularly mortifying Saturday afternoon when she saw me in the Wimpy with – the horror of it all!
  • (14) The story of his life mortified him and sent him scurrying for excuses.
  • (15) My hope is that the government of Sheikh Hasina might actually be mortified by this letter.” Bangladesh must act on these brutal attacks on bloggers | Letters Read more The letter comes after the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death last week on a crowded street in Sylhet , Bangladesh’s fifth-largest city.
  • (16) I have plenty of Labour-voting friends who are happy to cheer Venezuelan nationalism, but who would be mortified to be called British nationalists.
  • (17) Read it as a teenager and you wince for poor mortified Lizzie and Jane, thinking perhaps of times when our own mother said the wrong thing.
  • (18) He added: "I am mortified to have done this, because it breaches the most basic ethical rule: don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you.
  • (19) I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.” “I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.” The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
  • (20) When Aston Pride ended this March, local people were mortified at receiving no recognition, not even a junior official from Eric Pickles's Department for Communities to visit, or a letter of praise for being the top NDC after all those years of giving so much and overcoming such obstacles.

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