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mortified

/ˈmɔɹtəˌfaɪd/ adjective C1
  1. Acutely embarrassed. (informal)
  2. Having undergone mortification (discipline of the bodily appetites etc.)
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I felt so mortified, Marilla; he might have been politer to a stranger, I think.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1
“That is very true,” replied Elizabeth, “and I could easily forgive _his_ pride, if he had not mortified _mine_.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 20 · B2
Mary was obliged to mix more with the world, but she could still moralize over every morning visit; and as she was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters’ beauty and her own, it was suspected by her father that she submitted to the change without much reluctance.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 367 · B2
Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy’s marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropped all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Elizabeth.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 370 · B2

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