humiliation
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England were 15 minutes from one of the most abject humiliations in their World Cup history until Harry Kane's late heroics helped them overcome DR Congo to face Mexico in the last 16.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026
The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor—forever cursed by a reputation as a great but underrated writer—frames Mrs. Palfrey’s struggle to endure the humiliations of old age as both tragic and comic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Millions of people seem to have determined that Las Vegas has become corroded—its joys less accessible, its humiliations too dire.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2025
I’d been apartment hunting for months, a process that had devolved into a series of small humiliations.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025
Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing humiliation
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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