Both Uses of
mortified
in
The House of Mirth
- It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- She had once shown him the impossibility of such a hope, and his subsequent behaviour seemed to prove that he had accepted the situation with a reasonableness somewhat mortifying to her vanity.†
Chpt 1.13
Definition:
-
(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated