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US
/ˈmɔɹtəˌfaɪd/
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[ UK /mˈɔːtɪfˌaɪd/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːtɪfˌaɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
humiliated that his wife had to go out to work
felt mortified by the comparison with her sister
too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street - suffering from tissue death
How To Use mortified In A Sentence
- Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
- Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
- Mrs. Tarbell, deeply mortified, resumed her occupation, and completed the _precipe_ by writing the words, "Tarbell, pro plff. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
- I am mortified at having to wait in line but TD is a lagger. Get Laid or Die Trying
- If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
- I would be mortified cancelling someone who had flown 600 miles to see me, but important men don't sport the blush of shame.
- I was mortified and apologised profusely to Button's adviser.
- Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
- Mortified, yet recognisant of the possible truth in the Baronesss words, Maria decides she must leave immediately.
- Happily I got a chance to work out the new, bigger disher (don't ask me what size I got, I already forget I am mortified to admit) on those Double Chocolate Chip Cookies I posted about this past Tuesday. Archive 2009-09-01