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View definitions for mortified

mortified

adjective as in humiliated

Strong match

adjective as in shamed

Strongest matches

Strong matches

adjective as in shamefaced

adjective as in sheepish

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Example Sentences

The awkward silence afterwards would once have mortified her, but not any more.

From BBC

He leaves the others stunned and David mortified until the storm cloud passes and he’s his jaunty, loquacious self again.

When we went to bed that night I tried to explain, to myself as much as to him, how I had managed to isolate myself so fully, while in the company of people who love me and would be mortified to learn that I was unable to ask them for the smallest of help.

From Slate

Kapadia has apologised, telling BBC News he was "mortified by the hurt and offence" that some of his posts have caused.

From BBC

“I need one of them to get in a wreck! I’m mortified!” he said.

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

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