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mortified

adjective as in humiliated

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adjective as in shamed

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adjective as in shamefaced

adjective as in sheepish

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It can variously mean someone who is dealing with brain fog, or smoking weed, or someone who is mortified.

As one would expect, the episode is geared towards a general audience—“This is not your average marathon”—rather than the ultra aficionados who will either be delighted or mortified that their beloved event is getting the 60 Minutes treatment.

Watson “purposely touched Plaintiff’s hand with the tip of his erect penis,” according to the suit, which says the woman “was shocked and mortified,” ended the massage and asked Watson to leave.

He believed in the NFL’s plan to keep players safe, but the idea of getting infected and spreading the virus in the community mortified him.

The story goes that as a young man, the Buddha sought to overcome the imperfections of the real world—sickness, old age, and death—by following the path of traditional Hindu asceticism, mortifying the flesh and nearly starving himself.

We can only assume that he was, as you would expect him to be, mortified by his own inability to keep his charges under control.

I was mortified and ended up wiping the makeup off my face as soon as I got a chance.

Would you be mortified if someone did that to you in real life?

Snowden was mortified by the reaction, said Wizner and others.

There are many Sinhalese Buddhists who are mortified by the turn their country has taken under the Rajapaksas.

"Then I think it was your duty to have first consulted me, Lady Maude," he said, feeling deeply mortified.

They walked silently down the lane together, Gilbert sullen and mortified, Dorothy pitying but resolute.

He sat down again, ashamed, mortified, angry with himself for behaving like a fool and a boy.

The tone constituted a rebuff, and Rita's coquetry deserted her, leaving her mortified and piqued.

His prudence mortified her to such a degree that on one occasion she went into fits.

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On this page you'll find 293 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mortified, such as: bewildered, bugged, chagrined, confounded, confused, and crushed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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