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mortified as in:  felt mortified

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  • The most famous case is also the most common: the pet dog, which has so assimilated humans into the realm of doghood as to want to mate with them, a fact that any dog owner who has had to pull an amorous dog from the leg of a mortified visitor will confirm.†   (source)
  • Beyond the prelature's adherence to the arcane ritual of corporal mortification, their views on women were medieval at best.†   (source)
  • Yes, my friend, the possibilities for mortification were infinite.†   (source)
  • Tracks of unknown creatures in the mortified loess.†   (source)
  • Jim overheard me talking about Peter's fiancée, and it's simply too mortifying, I was saying ...†   (source)
  • Maxon looked mortified.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah,' said Harry, trying to grin as though the memory of their last meeting was funny as opposed to mortifying.†   (source)
  • I wonder what he needs to hide, because there is enough here in his living room that should mortify him.†   (source)
  • So what had so mortified her during Gus's presentation?†   (source)
  • Some of her fellow cheerleaders were amused, some were mortified.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, I seemed to feel my skin from the inside, as if it now stood away from my flesh, separated by a millimeter of mortified space.†   (source)
  • Her dad's words stung in her ears: I am so mortified you're my daughter.†   (source)
  • Her client ducked her head, mortified.†   (source)
  • I was too mortified to spend that weekend at my grandmother's— with Hester as Owen's date—and so I returned to Dan's dorm with the other boys who marched to the school's rules.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth would be mortified by the thought of sharing a room with a man before she was married, Hilly would tell me I was stupid to even consider it.†   (source)
  • If I wasn't so stubborn, I might even admit that my judgmental behavior this week was completely mortifying and he had every right in the world to be angry with me for being so ignorant.†   (source)
  • Septa Mordane would be mortified, and Sansa would never speak to her again from the shame.†   (source)
  • To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches.†   (source)
  • They'd have been mortified!†   (source)
  • Piper knew most kids would find a Q&A like this with their parents totally mortifying.†   (source)
  • Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification.†   (source)
  • Instantly she was horrified at herself, and in mortified confusion kept her eyes on the wooden trencher before her.†   (source)
  • Cinder glared at the doctor, half-mortified, but the start of a smile grew on Kai's face.†   (source)
  • Kuttappen mortified, the twins preoccupied with boat thoughts.†   (source)
  • But when he looked down at the book to read the English translation, he stumbled over the word herb, pronouncing the h. Uncle Sam snorted and Aaron stopped, mortified.†   (source)
  • Mortified, I began to stammer—swearing was seriously against the rules at the Barbours' house—but Mr. Barbour didn't seem greatly perturbed.†   (source)
  • I'd be mortified in front of a man like that.†   (source)
  • When I do, it's almost too mortifying to admit.†   (source)
  • -they were naked, they were light and free-it was all lightness, bright and fast and buoyant, light as light, a helium buzz in the brain, a giddy bubbling in the lungs as they were taken up over the clouds and the war, beyond duty, beyond gravity and mortification and global entanglements-Sin loi!†   (source)
  • —and part was mortified.†   (source)
  • The nuns closed themselves up in their convent for their yearly mortification in honor of the crucifixion of their bridegroom and Lord, Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Jacob stared down, his expression mortified.†   (source)
  • He gets out of bed, convinced that it's his parents calling to wish him a happy birthday, mortified that it will wake Gerald and Lydia from sleep.†   (source)
  • My parents would have been mortified if I wore a bathing suit in public.†   (source)
  • So I stood there, mortified and embarrassed.†   (source)
  • No more dealing with newsboys who did not know their place; no more walking in the yellow stew that bubbled between pavers; no more having to breathe the awful perfume of mortified horses left in the middle of the street.†   (source)
  • FOR A SECOND Nadia was seized by a wild fury but then as she looked at Saeed he appeared almost lethally mortified and a coil loosened in her and she smiled a little and she held him tight, to torture him and to test him, and she said, surprising herself, "It's okay.†   (source)
  • Hiro is mortified by this idea.†   (source)
  • I was mortified picking it up because it fell between the seat and the window, and I was sure I'd look like an enormous cow bending over to get it.†   (source)
  • The elves froze with mortified expressions while they waited for Saphira's reaction.†   (source)
  • I was trying as hard as I could, and in the back of my mind was a growing sense of mortification.†   (source)
  • If she had known that Aureliano Segundo was going to take things the way he did, with the fine pleasure of a grandfather, she would not have taken so many turns or got so mixed up, but would have freed herself from mortification the year before Amaranta Ursula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain.†   (source)
  • If Ruth obeyed, she was mortified.†   (source)
  • Jim was mortified enough to complain about it at the supper table.†   (source)
  • Their mother, mortified by the scandalous marriage and more scandalous divorce, had married a pilot for TWA and moved to St. Louis, leaving her daughters to themselves.†   (source)
  • I'm so mortified.†   (source)
  • It prevents mortification of the flesh.†   (source)
  • I am mortified by the attention.†   (source)
  • Mortified that her capital was gone, Neth began to discuss with a few girlfriends the idea of seeking jobs in a city.†   (source)
  • It dawned on her then that her dad had asked the police to bring her home, and there was an instant when she was frozen in mortification.†   (source)
  • If he doesn't love me, I'm mortified for giving myself in the ways I just did.†   (source)
  • I was mortified that my voice squeaked.†   (source)
  • The probationer was mortified at the sound of a baby that had come alive right behind her back, confounding her most basic clinical assumptions.†   (source)
  • I stare at him in silence, feeling mortification creep over me.†   (source)
  • He was mortified by thoughts of the men she had slept with before their marriage; he was convinced, moreover, that she remained promiscuous-that every time he went to sea, or even left her alone for the day, she betrayed him with a multitude of lovers, whose existence he unendingly demanded that she admit.†   (source)
  • Two weeks earlier, this would have mortified me: I could just see myself bursting into flames from the shame.†   (source)
  • He's frozen, mortified.†   (source)
  • Deets didn't say a word or even look at Newt accusingly, but Newt was still mortified.†   (source)
  • Mandy stared at her plate in mortified silence.†   (source)
  • And, after he pulled her from the water and bandaged the wound, carrying her to his sister's bed, averting his eyes as he dressed her in his sister's gown; Cassie would have been mortified when she realized he'd seen her unclothed.†   (source)
  • That shot in his hip was as wasted as if she'd squirted it in a dead man-no heart to pump it, no vein to carry it up to his head, no brain up there for it to mortify with its poison.†   (source)
  • I set my spoon down, mortified.†   (source)
  • To have it declared publicly that his limp—his "halting" — would be a "blemish" on the company was, as he wrote, a "mortification" beyond any he had known.†   (source)
  • He stiffens, and I'm mortified.†   (source)
  • She was mortified.†   (source)
  • They saw the ailanthus jungle and the smash heap of mortified cars and they looked at the six-story slab of painted angels with streamers rippled above their cherub heads.†   (source)
  • The thought of her mortification kept me company for a long time, but the sounds of music and laughter and Cisco Kid screams broke into my pleasant revengeful reveries.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf glared at Clevinger with tight lips, mortified by the poor impression Clevinger was making.†   (source)
  • I know he drove a Nash Rambler with a naked lady hood ornament, that my aunt Gracie Juanita was so mortified that she painted a bathing suit over the chromed body.†   (source)
  • Usually it mortified him to be called her baby, but for some reason, just then, it made him feel sort of gooey and good.†   (source)
  • And the occasional mortification of having to appear in front of a guy I had a crush on in a bathing suit at the lake or whatever.†   (source)
  • He flung his arm over his face, mortified to be in such a state in front of anyone, much less a stranger.†   (source)
  • MY DICTIONARY HAS NO formal entry for this occasion, but if it did, it might go something like this: Assembly Day (n.) A boarding school tradition in which the family of the schoolgirl is allowed a visit, resulting in the mortification of all and the enjoyment of none.†   (source)
  • Nothing visible anyway, but just under the surface Jake was mortified at the thought of reacquiring a senior partner who owned the building and was impossible to work with, or under.†   (source)
  • I think about bananas, oranges, and strawberries, mortified that he might actually sense what I am thinking.†   (source)
  • If one of them had asked, of course, I would have been mortified.†   (source)
  • Casey burst into a fit of laughter as I buried my face in my hands, completely mortified.†   (source)
  • And surely the poor man looked mortified the next day, afraid that he had irrevocably offended me.†   (source)
  • I craved my father's answer, but to my utter mortification, Noah Hutchins had already heard too much.†   (source)
  • It's mortifying, for both of us.†   (source)
  • I drew in a deep, shuddering breath, totally mortified that a stranger was seeing me like this.†   (source)
  • He helped Christa find work at manual labor, taught her the routes of the Twin Cities' public buses, so she could move about freely, and, to their mother's mortification, discussed the particulars of birth control when he learned she was dating.†   (source)
  • She'd been mortified after their kiss, and had spent the next five minutes stammering an apology while he grinned.†   (source)
  • But mostly she was too mortified to face the congregation.†   (source)
  • She realizes something, bites her lip and looks mortified I'd say something if I could, but there's no place to start.†   (source)
  • But as my mortification wore off (and I became more adept at walking with boots) I also got to know her, and she was to become my greatest friend at Clarkebury.†   (source)
  • I was mortified!†   (source)
  • Though he was proud, at the same time, he was mortified.†   (source)
  • I was mortified.†   (source)
  • He was mortified; he had gum stuck on his fingers and in his hair, and he could hear his classmates trying to suppress their laughter.†   (source)
  • If we offend you now we have mortified the gods.†   (source)
  • For a long time Frank was mortified to have to rely on his son for such private matters, but eventually the shared challenge of bathing, grooming, and toilet brought them closer, deepened their feelings for each other.†   (source)
  • "Great God," he moans, mortified by such a sad sight.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hickey looked mortified and excused herself to go look for something in the storeroom, and Mr. Hickey politely held open the door for me, not saying anything more, and I resolved then not to disturb them again until they found it necessary to contact me directly, when I should be happy to contribute in any way.†   (source)
  • I was ready to bolt, ready to run out of that room as soon as she broke my heart, so I wouldn't have to face the mortification.†   (source)
  • He was mortified to find himself the center of attention, when a hundred eyes turned on him asthe chandelier swung like a pendulum and tinkled prettily, with a sound like glass dominoes falling.†   (source)
  • And I watched while the crazy Polack took a gulp of whiskey straight from the bottle and with her other hand—the one which had wrought upon me such mixed mortification and pleasure—gently massaged into the skin of her face my hapless exudate.†   (source)
  • This was rather mortifying to George, who had paid a stiff price for Fey and her pedigree.†   (source)
  • She was choking with mortification.†   (source)
  • It was mortifying to let that kind of a husband see you had that kind of a brother.†   (source)
  • Helpless and mortified, Chooka suddenly shrieked: "Get out of here, you goddam cop!†   (source)
  • And all the time she was filled with shame and mortification because he was seeing her cry.†   (source)
  • I felt so mortified, Marilla; he might have been politer to a stranger, I think.   (source)
    mortified = exceedingly embarrassed
  • She was terribly mortified about the pudding sauce last week.   (source)
  • Mrs. Chester Ross just LOOKED at me and I thought I would sink through the floor with mortification.   (source)
    mortification = extreme embarrassment
  • ...notice and Anne's mortification was as evident as Gilbert's satisfaction.   (source)
  • It is extremely mortifying, Marilla.   (source)
    mortifying = embarrassing or humiliating
  • Perhaps he was having a good time, but I was mortified.†   (source)
  • Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied.†   (source)
  • You would be mortified, too, if you realized that you were handcuffed by your own nature.†   (source)
  • I knew Mychal well enough not to actually die of mortification, but only just.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is a mortification of the flesh, like a hair shirt.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," I said, feeling mortified that I'd indirectly insulted his memory.†   (source)
  • "Mollywobbles," whispered a mortified Mrs. Weasley into the crack at the edge of the door.†   (source)
  • Accustomed to seeing stiff, mortified contestants, the audience responded with uncertain titters.†   (source)
  • I will do all in my power, my lord, but the wound has mortified.†   (source)
  • Celeste hung her head, absolutely mortified.†   (source)
  • Ron stopped craning his neck to catch a glimpse of Neville's parents and looked mortified.†   (source)
  • If he knew the truth ...how mortified would he be if anyone found out?†   (source)
  • And standing next to Mrs. McClure looking completely mortified was Jon Trulock.†   (source)
  • Now my mortification grew still further.†   (source)
  • She realized, mortified, that she was crying.†   (source)
  • She'd be mortified and ashamed of me and...I look down at the envelope.†   (source)
  • Reynie went from being surprised to being mortified.†   (source)
  • "But she looked mortified, and she was so apologetic," he countered.†   (source)
  • It used to mortify Ruth when she shouted for her up and down the block.†   (source)
  • "Honestly," her father said, "I am so mortified you're my daughter right now.†   (source)
  • I knew it was coming, but I was mortified.†   (source)
  • If she had expected him to be mortified, to spit it out and break down and apologize, she was wrong.†   (source)
  • There was a mystic joy in the idea, a saintly mortification.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, it's OK if you don't,' she said, looking mortified.†   (source)
  • Juli always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.†   (source)
  • The word mortified sounded like you'd gone to granite, like you couldn't move to save your soul.†   (source)
  • Mortified, she glanced at their intertwined fingers and the black smudges on the white silk gloves.†   (source)
  • She was so socially above Peter Houghton that an email like this wasn't mortifying, but hilarious.†   (source)
  • Mortified, she dumped the feathers in their bag, secured it.†   (source)
  • I want to look up, to read the expression on his face, but I'm too mortified.†   (source)
  • When I exit, hair dripping, out the double doors, I'm mortified to find the bus has already gone.†   (source)
  • It baas loudly in what I believe to be utter mortification.†   (source)
  • Max shook his head at the image's mortifying scale.†   (source)
  • He admired the man's determination, but it was a mortifying spectacle.†   (source)
  • Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.†   (source)
  • "That," she said, "is a truly mortifying idea.†   (source)
  • Howard was mortified over the disaster he had created.†   (source)
  • I smiled at Mallory, who was still standing there looking mortified.†   (source)
  • The other students giggled, but Julie looked mortified and merely stared at the ground.†   (source)
  • Godly glamour moms who invited your friends over for tea and guy talk—that was just mortifying.†   (source)
  • His eyes make me forget that I am mortified, that I wanted to never speak again.†   (source)
  • The scientist in her was mortified by her own naïveté.†   (source)
  • Mortified, I crumpled at my father's feet and, in a tiny voice, begged his pardon.†   (source)
  • He sat there glowing in the dark, red hot, mortified, frustrated, and ashamed.†   (source)
  • It wasn't pretty—his father would have been mortified—but Steve thought it would do.†   (source)
  • Miss Sessions's becoming blush deepened to the tint of angry mortification.†   (source)
  • Prusias apparently heard this, for he abruptly turned and addressed the mortified speaker.†   (source)
  • The faun stepped hesitantly forward, gazing with a mortified expression at Grendel's wound.†   (source)
  • Nately shook his head, his cheeks darkening with shy and regretful mortification.†   (source)
  • This is mortifying but at least she does it indoors, where no one can see her.†   (source)
  • For a few moments I can't move for mortification.†   (source)
  • "The flesh mortifies and the wounds ooze pus," Pycelle told the council.†   (source)
  • I smile a little queasily back at him, still feeling mortified.†   (source)
  • Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally.†   (source)
  • If they mortify my vanity, they give me comfort.†   (source)
  • It seems a simple request, and yet, I'm far too mortified by it all to utter a sound.†   (source)
  • It flops hopelessly under her manipulations while I watch, mortified.†   (source)
  • He could see from Grace's mortified face that it was time to leave.†   (source)
  • Even though I was so mortified I wanted to disappear, I wanted to hear too.†   (source)
  • Omar looked mortified throughout and meticulously cleaned his glasses.†   (source)
  • She disappeared, mortified but also faintly thrilled.†   (source)
  • I was too surprised and mortified by the rector's sudden appearance to make any civil reply to him.†   (source)
  • Jared saw me, saw my mortified expression, and stopped.†   (source)
  • A beat of mortified silence as the smee swelled up with indignation.†   (source)
  • And then it would mortify my pride if I should be thought to disgrace you.†   (source)
  • When I did hear myself, heard the ragged, tearing gasps of agony, I was mortified.†   (source)
  • I colored then, in mortification and anger both.†   (source)
  • Jamie ducked under Jeb's hand, his face scarlet with mortification.†   (source)
  • — proud and very domineering, the sort of witch who would have been mortified to produce a Squib—†   (source)
  • He'd have to remind her, at breakfast; then she'd snap out of her trance and buy him some mortifying present — pyjamas for little kids with kangaroos or bears on them, a disk nobody under forty would ever listen to, underwear ornamented with whales — and tape it up in tissue paper and dump it on him at the dinner table, smiling her increasingly weird smile, as if someone had yelled Smile!†   (source)
  • Langdon stared, mortified.†   (source)
  • I sat there, completely mortified.†   (source)
  • Amir looked mortified.†   (source)
  • The first morning he'd slept over he'd been mortified to face them, showering beforehand, putting on his wrinkled shirt and trousers from the day before, but they'd merely smiled, still in their bathrobes, and offered him warm sticky buns from their favorite neighborhood bakery and sections of the paper.†   (source)
  • But of all the secret punishments that Chacko tormented Mammachi with, the worst and most mortifying of all was when he reminisced about Margaret Kochamma.†   (source)
  • When we finally got the table stopped and Marley reeled in, just feet from the poodle and her mortified owner, I turned back to check on the boys, and that's when I got my first good look at the faces of my fellow alfresco diners.†   (source)
  • He's mortified.†   (source)
  • When he dared face her again, he was mortified to see her wearing a faint smile, as if amused by his reaction.†   (source)
  • I was mortified.†   (source)
  • The rigor of the mourning for Remedios had been relegated to the background by the mortifications of the war, Aureliano's absence, Arcadio's brutality, and the expulsion of Jose Arcadio and Rebeca.†   (source)
  • His Holiness has become uneasy with your aggressive recruiting policies and your practices of corporal mortification.†   (source)
  • The very idea of it mortified him.†   (source)
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  • Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up
    My mortified spirit.   (source)
    mortified = dead
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