mortify
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That it seems a choice at all is what should mortify us.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
A few years after I sent the quarterback the audio recording, a friend who lived in his dorm told me that he’d played it aloud for his buddies in an effort to mortify me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
“Don’t take advantage of your own position and role to mortify the other.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Yet part of the song came to mortify him, he allowed.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2021
I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Yet even as the siblings lose their sophistication and their self-control to a degree that mortifies their loved ones, Mr. Kolker sees more than tragedy in his subjects’ second selves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
It said the spread of English "demeans and mortifies" Italian and proposed that all public and private bodies had to use the language of Dante to promote their goods and services.
From Reuters ● Mar. 31, 2023
Being stalked by an invisible enemy surely mortifies those with an obsessive-compulsive fear of germs, and deepens the distress of many who have experienced waves of uncontrollable anxiety before the epidemic.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2020
“I know not which mortifies me most,” he wrote, “that I should fear to write what I think, or my country bear such a state of things.”
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2018
I ought to have read more, for I find I don’t know anything, and it mortifies me.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
With only two minutes for the family to talk, Seyfried suddenly seems mortified to be intruding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He later said he was "deeply mortified if anyone considers my involuntary tics to be intentional or to carry any meaning".
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Rolincik was assigned a slow French ballad and was mortified when the instructor said she was doing too much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
If I was mortified just to breathe, how could I even think about loving another man?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
She used one of the paper napkins to wipe at her eyes, suddenly mortified.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
A child interrupting a meeting became, depending on the meeting, either completely understandable or still mortifying.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The only thing more mortifying than a shameless stunt fight is knowing you’re shameless enough to watch it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
It might have happened 25 years ago - but Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Page says she is still reeling from a "mortifying" moment on a film set with Johnny Depp.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Little did I know this would turn out to be equal parts amazing and mortifying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
She regrets her mortifying lack of confidence, the extra ten pounds she carried on her frame during puberty.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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