humiliating
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4.5
- adjective
- /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
- Offensive
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humillante
- It was humiliating for us.
- humiliating defeat
- humiliating experience
- humiliating circumstances
And they succeeded by vicious, humiliating racism and by violence.
- And they succeeded by vicious, humiliating racism and by violence.
- Jesus Christ, that is so humiliating and embarrassing.
- It's like, hey, how humiliating do you want this existence to be?
- Like, do you not realize how how humiliating that is for your kid?
- And it's a pretty humiliating experience often, yeah.
- The Iraq and Afghan wars were complete humiliating catastrophes.
- I've had nightmares of what Graham last thoughts was, how humiliating you made him feel.
- And that was a failure in a dramatic and highly humiliating way.
- It's really hard, you know, and it's humiliating.
Examples
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Do you realize how humiliating this is?
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You are responsible for the most humiliating moment of my life.
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And it was the most humiliating experience of my life.
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Like, do you not realize how how humiliating that is for your kid?
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I mean, it's humiliating enough without that added on.
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It's humiliating and it's killing his spirit.
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And now it is humiliating for them to have to go to the unemployment website.
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The film depicts a number of humiliating job experiences and auditions.
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The perpetrators, in other words, cannot claim not to know the degrading and humiliating effects of their actions.
Academic text (2006) -
Applying for welfare was a humiliating experience that made me feel ashamed.
Synonyms
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2.4
Making someone feel awkward or ashamed
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4.8
Making someone feel small and unimportant
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5.5
Causing someone to feel ashamed and less respected
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9.0
Causing public shame and a loss of respect
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7.0
Making someone feel very embarrassed or ashamed
Causing someone to feel ashamed or embarrassed in front of other people
Antonyms
How Humiliating
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word humiliating comes from the old Latin word humilis, which means 'low' or 'on the ground', and it shares the same root as the common English word humble. So to be humiliated is to be made to feel 'low' or small in front of others.