0 be/feel mortified to be/feel extremely embarrassed or humiliated -- ydmyge
He was mortified when she slapped him.
I should be mortified by that knowledge except for the fact that there never seems to be very much point in being mortified by one's own shortcomings.
Nothing in the paper said who that young person was or where she lived, but she knew who she was, and she was mortified by the reports of her case.
Today, the average woman is mortified to think of herself as old at 60, yet the state does.
I am sure that everyone would be mortified at the result if he did.
This must have been mortifying to the general practitioner.
Large numbers of people in this country were mortified by that fact and deeply desirous that such responsibility should not be neglected again.
It is mortifying to some of us who support progressive legislation and are pledged to it and believe in it heart and soul.
Suffice it to say that there will always be, especially in criminal cases, bitter accusation and counteraccusation, and someone may well be mortified by it.
