humiliate
Example Sentences
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I dropped my controller right onto my ankle bone and gave a humiliating squeak.
From Literature
Something humiliating, although, if I was lucky, the letter would contain something embarrassing.
From Literature
His predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had left the nation bankrupt and humiliated, following an eight-year war with neighboring Iraq, one of the deadliest global conflicts of the past century.
Mr. Lynton and Mr. Steiner, longtime friends, rarely discussed these humiliating episodes with each other until recently.
Misjudgments made in public or at the workplace can feel humiliating.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
