mortifying, adj.
causing awareness of your shortcomings
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demeaning humbling humiliating mortifying
causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
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embarrassing mortifying
sample sentences
"the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles""it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
semantic pointers
similar to