Mortified

Examples

• We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To be sure, said Harriet, in a mortified voice, he is not so genteel as real gentlemen. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That is very true, replied Elizabeth, and I could easily forgive _his_ pride, if he had not mortified _mine_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was odd to have summoned him in that way, and then forgotten him; but Archer felt more curious than mortified. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She patronized Lady Gaunt and her astonished and mortified sister-in-law--she ecrased all rival charmers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I should be mortified indeed if I did not believe I had been of some use; but it is not every body who will bestow praise where they may. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But this was enough to wear off the shyness on her side, and any symptoms of mortified pride and vanity on his. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She was mortified. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We went in and found Richard, whom we had last seen in high spirits, leaning on the chimney-piece looking mortified and angry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Bounderby, in his desire to make the most of it, really seemed mortified by being obliged to reply, 'Why, no; not of very much. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Never had she felt so agitated, mortified, grieved, at any circumstance in her life. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She was mortified, shocked, confounded. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He thought that he disliked seeing one who had mortified him so keenly; but he was mistaken. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Will Ladislaw, meanwhile, was mortified, and knew the reason of it clearly enough. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But he was profoundly mortified by the lady's inattention to him during their stay at Brussels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The woman went away mortified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He would have been mortified if I had not informed him of the experiment which I am going to try with Mr. Blake. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was by nature and education a gentleman, and was terribly mortified at his action when the battle was over. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Having myself foreseen that result, I was neither mortified nor surprised. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You can't dance without them, and if you don't I should be so mortified. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A man will be mortified, if you tell him he has a stinking breath; though it is evidently no annoyance to himself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified. Jane Austen. Emma.
• We may be mortified by our own faults and follies; but never feel any anger or hatred except from the injuries of others. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I'm afraid I mortified her without meaning it! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I was so mortified at being treated in this way, that I plucked up spirit enough to speak. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The early Christian teachers held that the body should be mortified if it interfered with s piritual welfare. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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