mortified
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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
He gets out of bed, convinced that it’s his parents calling to wish him a happy birthday, mortified that it will wake Gerald and Lydia from sleep.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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