humiliation
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4.2
- noun
- /hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Offensive
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humillación
- And it just felt like such a public failure, public humiliation, public loss.
- public humiliation
- shame and humiliation
- embarrassment and humiliation
And it's just been one humiliation after another since then.
- And it's just been one humiliation after another since then.
- And it leads to more and more humiliation, which leads to further anger.
- Like to stand in humiliation is a really tough place to be.
- The wall is whatever we fear most Betrayal, rejection, humiliation, abandonment.
- In that moment, that particular moment, I felt so much humiliation and contempt.
- They suffered the humiliation of being attacked by their critics.
- And it just felt like such a public failure, public humiliation, public loss.
- But you're terrified of the damage and defeat and the humiliation and the failure.
- And she understood that as symbolic of the dehumanization and humiliation of the process.
Examples
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After forgetting her lines during the play, she felt a deep sense of humiliation in front of all her friends.
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In that moment, that particular moment, I felt so much humiliation and contempt.
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And it's just been one humiliation after another since then.
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Yeah, humiliation and young people kind of go together.
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Like to stand in humiliation is a really tough place to be.
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When he came back, you said, "You saved me from public humiliation, Jack.
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Chinese experience their early modern history as one of national humiliation at the hands of the West.
Academic text (1999) -
And it leads to more and more humiliation, which leads to further anger.
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Each failure became a public humiliation and made her only more determined to succeed, just once.
Fiction book (1990) -
They suffered the humiliation of being attacked by their critics.
Synonyms
418
2.3
A painful feeling of guilt and embarrassment about something you did wrong
219
3.1
A feeling of awkwardness or shame
16
8.2
A feeling of disappointment and embarrassment after you fail
16
6.3
A state when someone feels ashamed and loses respect from others
2
8.6
A strong feeling of shame or deep embarrassment
2
9.3
Shame and loss of respect felt by many people
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8.9
A feeling of deep shame when people treat you as unimportant
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9.9
A feeling of being very low, ashamed, and rejected by others
A feeling of being embarrassed and sorry after you do something wrong
A strong feeling of shame and deep disappointment
Antonyms
How Humiliated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humiliation comes from the old Latin word humilis, which means 'low' or 'close to the ground', and it is the same root as humble. So humiliation is the feeling of being made to feel 'low' or ashamed.