All 5 Uses
mortified
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Sweet Far Thing
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- It would be too mortifying to bear.†
Chpt 1
- It baas loudly in what I believe to be utter mortification.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Simon," Lucy whispers, mortified.†
Chpt 2
- Mortified and angry, I walk past the smirking schoolgirls and the chuckling workers and straight into the school, not caring that I'm demonstrating the most appalling lack of sportsmanship.†
Chpt 3
- It seems a simple request, and yet, I'm far too mortified by it all to utter a sound.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) extremely embarrassed and ashamed—so humiliated that pride feels wounded.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a sense of biological decay; or a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship; or (archaically) to be emotionally numbed