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

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

“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

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

Florence Portelli, the mayor of Taverny, a Paris suburb, was mortified by the call for self-defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"I'm mortified with the performance. I know you can lose games of football but we should have enough in the building to take care of that tonight."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I’m mortified to say, however, I fell hard for this one.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

I am doubly mortified, because I didn’t know, and because Mr. Smeath said fart at the Sunday dinner table and enlisted me on his side, and I did not say no.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

A child interrupting a meeting became, depending on the meeting, either completely understandable or still mortifying.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 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

Listening to the European golfers plead with fans to not chuck beers at a colleague’s spouse was mortifying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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

Godly glamour moms who invited your friends over for tea and guy talk—that was just mortifying.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan