Example sentences for: mortified

How can you use “mortified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Again, readers need to decide for themselves how likely it is that a Cabinet officer would bring a Washington dinner party to a mortified standstill by mistaking jelly for sauce.

  • --You'd think at that point, mortified by his own ignorance, Largent would have resigned.

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.

  • When the Encarta Dictionary of English was published last month, the press celebrated the event by listing the dictionary's errors, which surely mortified Anne Soukhanov, its editor.

  • I am mortified much of the time because "Elaine" is always dropping things into her purse.


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