All 15 Uses of
humiliate
in
War and Peace
- The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her with exaggerated politeness.†
Chpt 1 *
- Prince Andrew without lifting his eyes rode hastily away from the doctor's wife, who was calling him her deliverer, and recalling with a sense of disgust the minutest details of this humiliating scene he galloped on to the village where he was told that the commander in chief was.†
Chpt 2
- Lemarrois had just arrived at a gallop with Bonaparte's stern letter, and Murat, humiliated and anxious to expiate his fault, had at once moved his forces to attack the center and outflank both the Russian wings, hoping before evening and before the arrival of the Emperor to crush the contemptible detachment that stood before him.†
Chpt 2
- Particularly vivid, humiliating, and shameful was the recollection of how one day soon after his marriage he came out of the bedroom into his study a little before noon in his silk dressing gown and found his head steward there, who, bowing respectfully, looked into his face and at his dressing gown and smiled slightly, as if expressing respectful understanding of his employer's happiness.†
Chpt 4
- Suddenly, on one of the officers' saying that it was humiliating to look at the French, Rostov began shouting with uncalled-for wrath, and therefore much to the surprise of the officers: "How can you judge what's best?" he cried, the blood suddenly rushing to his face.†
Chpt 5
- After some others had been shown in and out of the minister's room by the adjutant on duty, an officer who struck Prince Andrew by his humiliated and frightened air was admitted at that terrible door.†
Chpt 6
- He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved.†
Chpt 6
- This family gathering seemed humiliating to Natasha—as if there were nowhere else for the family to talk but here at the ball.†
Chpt 6
- At that ball Pierre for the first time felt humiliated by the position his wife occupied in court circles.†
Chpt 6
- Had he forced her to prostrate herself to the ground all night, had he beaten her or made her fetch wood or water, it would never have entered her mind to think her position hard; but this loving despot—the more cruel because he loved her and for that reason tormented himself and her—knew how not merely to hurt and humiliate her deliberately, but to show her that she was always to blame for everything.†
Chpt 8
- She turned away and suddenly remembered all that had been so humiliating in her morning's visit.†
Chpt 8
- Only looking up at the sky did Pierre cease to feel how sordid and humiliating were all mundane things compared with the heights to which his soul had just been raised.†
Chpt 8
- All that was distressing, and especially all that was humiliating, in her position rose vividly to her mind.†
Chpt 10
- I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch.†
Chpt 11
- The countess let no occasion slip of making humiliating or cruel allusions to Sonya.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)