abasement

Example Sentences

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After reading “Girl on Girl,” I felt almost sticky with proxy humiliation, as Gilbert evokes example after example of female abasement in pop culture.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Someone who really likes herself is not apt to describe herself as a “sea lion,” or to describe a scene of utmost abasement.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2020

Look through the opening, and you will find Saar rescuing the black female figure from her destiny of abasement.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019

A lesser songwriter would either paint the couple in a false glow of romance or wallow in the tawdry abasement.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019

Clyde’s fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement, however.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole