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humiliated
[ hyoo-mil-ee-ey-tid, or, often, yoo- ]
adjective
- made to feel a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; deeply embarrassed or put to shame:
The strategy of the verbal abuser is to become the winner of every conversational debate and make the other person the humiliated loser.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of humiliate.
Other Words From
- un·hu·mil·i·at·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of humiliated1
Example Sentences
In long, sometimes angry remarks before the vote, Chase, who is seeking the GOP nomination for governor, accused fellow senators of trying to humiliate her.
We’ve lost dignity, been humiliated, and our honor is in question.
“This is his ineffectual payback for being humiliated by a strong, independent woman,” she wrote.
But not until Gregory Peck is humiliated and walks out do we cut high and long to show his exit.
But below the surfaces of many of his films, rude, angry sex simmered; cool, icy blondes were tied up, handcuffed, humiliated.
For the next hour, she verbally humiliated him while he licked her boots and feet until they were completely cleaned.
During their incarceration, they were humiliated and forced to confess on national television.
I watched the pilot before I shot it, just to remind myself where she had been and how humiliated she was.
A more abject, humiliated man than I stand at this hour in my own eyes never yet took his sins upon his soul.
They poured into the ear of the humiliated queen the most revolting and loathsome execrations.
She remembered the many scenes in which her spirit had been humiliated by haughty assumptions.
My failure to accomplish the desired result is grievously exasperating, and I feel deeply humiliated.
I had been humiliated by my elephant, and now being disgusted with my monkey, I took Kari into town again.
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