Synonym: abasement, chagrin, mortification. Similar words: humiliate, reconciliation, humility, retaliation, rumination, radiation, variation, alleviation. Meaning: [hjuː‚mɪlɪ'eɪʃn] n. 1. state of disgrace or loss of self-respect 2. strong feelings of embarrassment 3. an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect 4. depriving one of self-esteem.
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(61) The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt, dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego.
(62) What really upset me was the humiliation of having to ask her for money.
(63) Regis dismissed Bergsson's almost non-existent challenge to complete Tottenham's humiliation.
(64) The greatest imponderable may be the personal impact the humiliation of the ethics case has brought.
(65) Maybe it helped him to forget his own humiliation at the hands of the Wee Doc.
(66) In every instance, rituals of humiliation, of slow torture, of unspeakable bestiality accompanied the killings.
(67) It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man, almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure.
(68) As a result they suffer from poverty, physical hardship, neglect, sickness and disability, loneliness, humiliation and fear.
(69) Only greater humiliation could result from an attempt to wrench the truth from her.
(70) I scrambled to learn more and managed to keep a half step ahead of humiliation.
(71) Then, after that humiliation, he had added insult to injury by saying she'd be perfectly safe with him!
(72) As you can imagine, this causes us a great deal of humiliation and emotional distress.
(73) At the extreme edge of the picture, a fourth black woman sits on the rocks in a posture of abject humiliation.
(74) She turned over and felt an agonising wave of humiliation sweep over her, as she remembered his expression.
(75) Last year's advert showed the humiliation of arrest through the eyes of a drunken driver.
(76) I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation - none of the things I'd felt at the time.
(77) The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him.
(78) Looking at the pompous, malevolent priest in his humiliation, Jane knew he would never forget what she had done.
(79) Apparently, one black player in the major leagues was worth the humiliation.
(80) Kurt was able to sign up without first enduring the humiliation of internment.
(81) The President sought to keep me happy during this period of public humiliation by giving me additional duties and responsibilities.
(82) The Tulsa humiliation was barely a week old and Harrick-bashing was in full force on the airwaves and in the papers.
(83) Some of them stayed home to avoid the conflict, trauma, risk of public humiliation, personal injury, and death.
(84) Better an early climb-down in some sheltered private meeting, he argued, than a humiliation on the floor of the House.
(85) Shadow trade spokesman Robin Cook described the judgment as a humiliation for Mr Heseltine.
(86) I think she's suffered enough humiliation without having to endure the knowledge that her son is aware of it.
(87) Was he really so psychologically weakened that public humiliation would become a sort of perverse fame?
(88) She tried to banish the humiliation to the back of her mind,[sentence dictionary] but it was worse than the physical pain.
(89) No woman could be expected to suffer such humiliation, certainly not Eline with her fine spirit of independence.
(90) That is the stark injustice of the total humiliation of women on all levels, by men.
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