humiliating
- lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
Origin of humiliating
humiliate
- to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
Origin of humiliate
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Examples from the Web for humiliating
Contemporary Examples of humiliating
In a humiliating turn of events, the ruble has lost about half its value against the dollar so far this year.
But in Hebron you see what it means in its most humiliating manifestation.
All of which, among other humiliating acts, are recounted in My Crazy Love.
Divorce ensued, along with a deluge of humiliating media coverage.
Hearing that is a lot easier than hearing something else, but it is not less, well, humiliating and scary, I guess.
Historical Examples of humiliating
This sentence was as humiliating and mortifying as anything that could be put upon him.
The Boy Life of NapoleonEugenie Foa
This humiliating order was obeyed, and all hands of us were called aft.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
Will you never be convinced that, that; but why make this humiliating confession?
Vivian GreyEarl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
Flight was humiliating and dreadful, but to remain in England was impracticable.
Beaux and Belles of EnglandMary Robinson
I was fronted by a fact, humiliating or not—a fact which I could not deny.
The First ViolinJessie Fothergill
humiliate
- (tr) to lower or hurt the dignity or pride of
Word Origin for humiliate
Word Origin and History for humiliating
humiliate
1530s, perhaps a back-formation from humiliation. Related: Humiliated; humiliating; humiliatingly.