humiliate

“The lesson of this relationship,” said Radchenko, “is that you don’t use your position as the senior partner to humiliate the junior partner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"They'd love to humiliate the Castros and get one of the original revolutionaries from 1959 behind bars. But the strategic value of that is questionable."

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

Well, everyone in show business has to humiliate themselves sometimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

"By insisting on retraction China is trying to humiliate her and turning up the heat on the controversy," Kingston said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

They’d all seemed to have abruptly forgotten that I was still the same girl they’d tried to humiliate, over and over again.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

Critics say Philips doesn't just challenge those beliefs - he humiliates the people who hold them.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

What did you bring to the scene where Glinda humiliates Elphaba, giving her that “hideodeous” black hat that she wears to the ball?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024

The league says its operations manual strictly prohibits bullying and hazing, which is defined as behavior that “harms, intimidates, offends, degrades, threatens, or humiliates another person or creates a risk to their health or safety.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2023

Dream wins and humiliates the Lord of Hell, after which she swears revenge.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2022

But a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

She must also have been embarrassed and possibly humiliated by her employer behaving like this behind her back.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

"Innocent people are left feeling humiliated and distraught, but the important message is that victims shouldn't let embarrassment stop them from reporting what's happened," they said.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

I’ve oscillated wildly between thinking the U.S. will ride a host-nation bump to the semis and worrying they’ll be humiliated by Paraguay and soccer in this country will be canceled forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

She told the man who posted it that it made her feel "humiliated".

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

I thought Olive, who was small and quick, or Hugh, with his peculiar connection to another sort of winged creature, might have some luck, but both were humiliated.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

It was not as humiliating for Wales as the 73-0 record home loss to South Africa in Cardiff last November but the victory highlighted the gulf between the two nations.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Its decision arrived just hours after the Supreme Court’s sixth reversal of the 5th Circuit so far this term, with several more likely to come—a humiliating record for the appeals court.

From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2026

Several French pro-Palestinian activists on Friday described what they said was a violent and humiliating ordeal after they were detained by Israeli forces on a Gaza-bound flotilla.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

Early signs suggested that “Iceman” would constitute a return to Drake’s tough-talking ways in the wake of his humiliating defeat, and indeed that’s largely what the album delivers over plush yet hard-hitting beats.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

It was humiliating to be offered a Purple Heart now, and he wasn’t going to let his platoon leader insult him like that.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge