单词 | mortifyingly |
释义 | > as lemmasˈmortifyingly ˈmortifyingly adv. in a way that is vexatious or humiliating; embarrassingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adverb] > in annoying or vexatious manner noyfully1395 annoyously?c1400 noyously1483 troublously1538 uncommodiously1545 wretchedly1546 irksomely1549 incommodiously1551 troublesomely1591 vexingly1599 cumbersomely1611 vexatiously1642 discomfortably1653 importunely1658 gratingly1683 mortifyingly1748 distressingly1786 gallingly1802 annoyingly1806 peskily1833 pesky1833 tryingly1841 discomfortingly1869 balls-achingly1972 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. li. 254 How tender, how mortifyingly-tender, now in him! 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxviii. 301 What she said..was of a purpose somewhat mortifyingly below the standard of the occasion. 1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 66 My father would take out a mortifyingly dilapidated grey woollen two-piece outfit, a fossil ancestor of the modern tracksuit. < as lemmas |
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