mortifiedin a sentence
mortified as in: felt mortified
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She was mortified when her father questioned the boy who came to pick her up.mortified = exceedingly embarrassed
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The editor was mortified to discover one of her writers had plagiarized in a story.mortified = exceedingly ashamed
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She felt mortified after tripping onstage during the awards ceremony.mortified = exceedingly embarrassed
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I could hide my mortification under it. [a costume] (source)mortification = extreme embarrassment
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I'm mortified Shane saw me half undressed. (source)mortified = exceedingly embarrassed or humiliated
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The thought alone was mortifying. (source)mortifying = causing extreme embarrassment, shame, or humiliation
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She was terribly mortified about the pudding sauce last week. (source)mortified = exceedingly embarrassed
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I knew Mychal well enough not to actually die of mortification, but only just.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Often, when she stood over him, there was the mortifying thought that he had just woken up, his eyes splitting open to view her—to watch her watching.† (source)
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I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him.† (source)
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Not that she in the least degree resembled a pheasant, having been endowed by nature with a short and squat and masculine figure; but successive mortifications had given her a backward tilt, such as one may observe in trees which have taken root on the very edge of a precipice and are forced to grow backwards to preserve their balance.† (source)
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"The flesh mortifies and the wounds ooze pus," Pycelle told the council.† (source)
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They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, "let poor Ellen find her own level"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and "people who wrote" celebrated their untidy rites.† (source)mortifyingly = causing extreme embarrassment, shame, or humiliation
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Edgar sat mortified while Henry finished his pie.† (source)
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Was this some new mortification of the flesh, or was it simple eccentricity, or had she simply forgotten?† (source)
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Jim overheard me talking about Peter's fiancée, and it's simply too mortifying, I was saying ...† (source)
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Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit. (source)mortified = dead
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Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm Excite the mortified man. (source)mortified = emotionally deadened
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