humiliating
adjective
hu·mil·i·at·ing
hyü-ˈmi-lē-ˌā-tiŋ 
yü-
: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity : humbling
humiliatingly
adverb
Examples of humiliating in a Sentence
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Vain, often drunk, desperate to get a leg up, the title character weaves in and out of humiliating scenarios, scraping by with a sense of self-inflation to match his appetite for self-destruction.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
And yet who else in the last quarter-century has done more to insist on some standard of alternative etiquette, to speak to the humiliating, exasperating paradoxes of doing just about anything in 21st-century America?
—Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Problems at programs for troubled youth Two programs in Wyoming were accused of forcing teens to do heavy farm work and using humiliating punishments.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Trump has always delighted in belittling opponents—Lyin’ Ted, Liddle Marco, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe—and Cheung, a former spokesman for the mixed-martial-arts franchise, Ultimate Fighting Championship, is a virtuoso at mimicking his boss, voicing all manner of innuendo and humiliating barbs.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Palestinian reporters and hospital staff described scenes of humiliating interrogations where colleagues had been undressed and left outside in the cold, after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) laid siege to the largest hospital in the enclave in the early hours of Monday.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Instead of humiliating defeated wartime enemies Germany and Japan, whose countries lay in ruin, the United States led a massive multibillion-dollar economic recovery program and helped convert totalitarian societies into prosperous democracies.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
Trouble with programs for troubled youth Two programs in Wyoming were accused of forcing teens to do heavy farm work and using humiliating punishments.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, the lack of access to the ballot box was characterized by activists as something that was humiliating, degrading and unjust.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
And yet who else in the last quarter-century has done more to insist on some standard of alternative etiquette, to speak to the humiliating, exasperating paradoxes of doing just about anything in 21st-century America?
—Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Problems at programs for troubled youth Two programs in Wyoming were accused of forcing teens to do heavy farm work and using humiliating punishments.
—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
Trump has always delighted in belittling opponents—Lyin’ Ted, Liddle Marco, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe—and Cheung, a former spokesman for the mixed-martial-arts franchise, Ultimate Fighting Championship, is a virtuoso at mimicking his boss, voicing all manner of innuendo and humiliating barbs.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Palestinian reporters and hospital staff described scenes of humiliating interrogations where colleagues had been undressed and left outside in the cold, after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) laid siege to the largest hospital in the enclave in the early hours of Monday.
—Abeer Salman, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Instead of humiliating defeated wartime enemies Germany and Japan, whose countries lay in ruin, the United States led a massive multibillion-dollar economic recovery program and helped convert totalitarian societies into prosperous democracies.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
Trouble with programs for troubled youth Two programs in Wyoming were accused of forcing teens to do heavy farm work and using humiliating punishments.
—Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, the lack of access to the ballot box was characterized by activists as something that was humiliating, degrading and unjust.
—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
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“Humiliating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humiliating. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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