mortify

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

Women who had lost their children drifted over little by little, to mortify themselves with possibilities and never-would-bes.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

“The idea that I’d go out with a recent widower just mortifies me,” Carolyn told THR.

From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

Saint-André worries that cases similar to hers are ignored by overenthusiastic doctors – and the thought of patients self-medicating with no professional supervision mortifies her.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2016

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

If I was mortified just to breathe, how could I even think about loving another man?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The patient's mortified family immediately apologised but the damage had been done, Vicario says, and such experiences leave him feeling powerless, anxious and nervous.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

"I was mortified," she says, "but eventually the desire to play outweighed the embarrassment. I wrote my first song, and that opened the floodgates."

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Backers confessed that they were mortified that they had introduced him to their friends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Usually I’d be mortified at such over-the-top PDA, especially with her decked out in red boots, silver arm cuffs, and a gold belt, but today I didn’t mind.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the DOJ’s rather mortifying confession and its implications for the broader battle over Trump’s federalization of the Guard.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025

The play, which is having its Los Angeles premiere at Pasadena Playhouse, seems like it could have been commissioned to skewer this destructive, benighted and completely mortifying anti-science moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025

Forty minutes into Rangers' mortifying night at Ibrox, Djeidi Gassama won a corner at the Broomloan Stand end and his manager, Russell Martin, applauded on the sideline.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

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

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu