humiliation

Example Sentences

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Meg’s jam refuses to gel, Jo salts instead of sugars the strawberries, ambition and reality collide, humiliation stings but eventually becomes something to laugh about.

From The Wall Street Journal

For trying to read a note someone else had given him, he was made to suffer complete humiliation.

From Literature

“I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it.”

From Los Angeles Times

By this time some of the others had returned to the surface, and some were back in the canoe—a growing audience for my humiliation.

From Literature

The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.

From Los Angeles Times