Example Sentences

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She acknowledges that people have the right to share their stories online "to try to seek support and sympathy", but she says these livestreams "lack dignity, and are humiliating".

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

“They are humiliating people with a bag of milk,” shouted one protester at a rally on a main highway north of Beirut.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Big scores are humiliating and difficult to swallow, but I don’t think they have a special meaning.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2011

Ask Springer if he believes, in his heart, that his guests are humiliating themselves, and he will call the question elitist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor were any of your adventures discreditable to you, even if some situations you have been in were distressing then and are humiliating to remember.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas