mortified
Example Sentences
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Radford was mortified, feeling like his preferences were being used in a proxy war between senior executives.
The movie flopped and Perrine was so mortified by the film’s poor reception that she moved to Europe.
From Los Angeles Times
I’m mortified by this, mortified that Theo could hear me and mortified even more by the idea that he could hear me doing something I wasn’t even aware I was doing.
From Literature
The 42-year-old said: "I was mortified but they said I'd given them a good laugh. They don't usually have funny stories in A&E."
From BBC
Davidson, an executive producer of the film, left midway through the ceremony and said in a statement he was “deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning.”
From Los Angeles Times
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