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Recent Examples of mortify Ram-woo, played by Gong Myeong (Lovers of the Red Sky, Be Melodramatic), is mortified by her behavior but also intrigued. Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 In a TikTok video that has since gone viral, the peripatetic music teacher recounted her mortifying experience. Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 30 Mar. 2025 As a medical community, we are mortified by this unjust attack on the health of all peoples in our nation. Kristin Brownell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025 Earlier in the season, he became mortified after watching the teens eat the previously deceased Jackie (Ella Purnell). Skyler Trepel, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mortify
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Verb
  • Johnson’s predecessor, Larry Robinson, resigned last year amid fallout from a fake $237 million donation scandal that embarrassed the school on the national stage.
    Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 17 May 2025
  • What’s made the 18th so fun this week is its ability — even for just a second — to embarrass the best golfers on the planet.
    Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • All of the footage from The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon makes the show-within-a-show look silly, which the series confuses with humorousness.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
  • While no one should ever have confused the entertainment business with a warm binkie, the institutions themselves are in the new and awkward spot of having to justify their existence.
    Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025

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“Mortify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortify. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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