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

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

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

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 campaigner said he was "deeply mortified" by the remark, and Bafta and the BBC issued apologies.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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

“To be sure,” said Harriet, in a mortified voice, “he is not so genteel as real gentlemen.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

One particularly mortifying episode from the past haunts Hally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 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

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

Mr Holliday used to really embarrass me because I would play with the boys and girls in school and he would tell all the boys to pass to me, but that was mortifying for me.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 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