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
“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
It also happens to be about 15 miles downstream via Upper Talarik Creek from the proposed Pebble Mine – a geographic coincidence that mortifies fish biologists.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2012
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
For instance, Washington would have been mortified to hear his rigorously trained Virginia Regiment characterized as a lowly militia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
In Samantha's case, she said she was fortunate to have a strong support system around her who could temporarily help with bills in the short-term but she still felt "absolutely mortified" at what had happened.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
I was at a sleepover and was mortified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
She scoots away from me, eyes wide and mortified.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
She said that as a dyscalculic student that was a "really humiliating and mortifying experience".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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
You should, and when you win, I’m sure your acceptance speech will be somewhat mortifying for your kids, so two wins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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
Boseman let out a mortifying gasp as they departed, which Cora took as his death rattle.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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