humiliation

humiliate | American Dictionary

humiliate
verb[ T ]
us/hjuˈmɪl·iˌeɪt/
to make you feel ashamed or lose respect for yourself:
They called him an old fool in public just to humiliate him.

humiliating

adjectiveus/hjuˈmɪl·iˌeɪt̬·ɪŋ/
[ + to infinitive ]It was humiliating to see all my possessions piled on the street.

humiliation

noun[ C/U ]us/hjuˌmɪl·iˈeɪ·ʃən/
[ U ]the humiliation of defeat

Examples of humiliate

humiliate
Placed on an enemy's head, it would have been a humiliating reference portending death as well as conversion into a loser/woman/moon.
At the start we know nothing save what he appears to be immediately doing - intimidating and humiliating a white woman in an explicitly racial way.
Many people were demoralized, lost their sense of human dignity, and felt humiliated.
A partner responded to the action of the other with a controlling or humiliating negative response or by physically moving away or verbally protesting.
Why go through the charade of pretending to do a play in order to humiliate fellow actors and the playwright?
Thus humiliated, the girl was so afraid and ashamed that all she could do was scream.
On the contrary, their petty jealousies and frictions, their incompetence and, eventually, their cowardice greatly contributed to its humiliating downfall.
It is not generally necessary to accept the viewpoint of the person who utters humiliating words.
Second, it demanded the limitation of the powers of the heads of the government departments (who were accused of humiliating employees and making arbitrary dismissals).
Telling on others in order to humiliate them is considered a sin.
There is a strong temptation to reverse its humiliating presence and make it touch the earth.
But this course of action would certainly have been humiliating and quite possibly politically embarrassing to boot.
His determination to emasculate the image of gangsters explains his enthusiasm for humiliating photographs of suspects upon capture.
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