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

At the time, Wallace said he was "deeply sorry for any distress" he caused, and that he "never set out to harm or humiliate".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

As Rue muses in a voiceover, she’s beautiful, directionless and “so desperate for attention she’s willing to humiliate herself.”

From Salon ● May 4, 2026

The 2019 screen fiasco, which found countless ways to humiliate a cast that included Taylor Swift and Judi Dench, gave kitsch a bad name.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

Earlier in the film, Patrick also publicly humiliates himself for Kat by singing Frankie Valli's song, "Can't Take My Eyes off You" in front of the whole school.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 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

And if the sight of me in neon Spandex humiliates my daughter someday — well, she’ll get over it.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018

My mother’s anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and I am crying.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Niederhoffer was devastated and humiliated, but he kept looking for patterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"I felt disheartened, I felt humiliated in so many ways," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

The lawyer said Murrell had been publicly humiliated and faced a "bleak and solitary" future.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

No one ever knew that those provisions were being sent by Petra Cotes with the idea that the continuing charity was a way of humiliating the person who had humiliated her.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"I would spend my days walking across the CIA compound to the...unisex or family bathroom, which I could use, and it was humiliating having to do that," she described.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The first post called Holmes “a disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession.”

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Before the humiliating collapse, Aschenbrenner’s fund had shown phenomenal returns of more than 1000% since its inception in 2024.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

"It was dehumanising, it was humiliating," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

I don’t want to tell her because saying it out loud—forming the actual words of what happened—is humiliating.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman