mortify

Example Sentences

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Radford was mortified, feeling like his preferences were being used in a proxy war between senior executives.

From The Wall Street Journal

The movie flopped and Perrine was so mortified by the film’s poor reception that she moved to Europe.

From Los Angeles Times

“Irene Blythe says she witnessed you and Russell in a . . .” The words died in her mouth, apparently too mortifying to say aloud.

From Literature

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