All 15 Uses of
humiliate
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- At last Miuesov felt completely humiliated and disgraced.†
Chpt 2
- This must have been how he came to feel it all so humiliating, and then I made that blunder, a very important one.†
Chpt 5 *
- I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all…†
Chpt 5
- Besides, there is suffering and suffering; degrading, humiliating suffering such as humbles me—hunger, for instance—my benefactor will perhaps allow me; but when you come to higher suffering—for an idea, for instance—he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea.†
Chpt 5
- On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers.†
Chpt 5
- Friends and teachers, I have heard more than once, and of late one may hear it more often, that the priests, and above all the village priests, are complaining on all sides of their miserable income and their humiliating lot.†
Chpt 6
- That was why Alyosha's heart was bleeding, and, of course, as I have said already, the sting of it all was that the man he loved above everything on earth should be put to shame and humiliated!†
Chpt 7
- But even this thought of the smell of corruption, which had seemed to him so awful and humiliating a few hours before, no longer made him feel miserable or indignant.†
Chpt 7
- What was insufferably humiliating was, that after leaving things of such importance and making such sacrifices, he, Mitya, utterly worn out, should with business of such urgency be standing over this dolt on whom his whole fate depended, while he snored as though there were nothing the matter, as though he'd dropped from another planet.†
Chpt 8
- What was worst of all, there was something humiliating in it, and on their side something "supercilious and scornful."†
Chpt 9
- Buffoonery in them is a form of resentful irony against those to whom they daren't speak the truth, from having been for years humiliated and intimidated by them.†
Chpt 10
- She was hurt, insulted and humiliated in her feelings.†
Chpt 11
- Oh! he was humiliated by that three thousand on account of his own meanness!†
Chpt 12
- This purgatory of the spirit, this animal thirst for self-preservation, these humiliating moments of the human soul, are awful, and sometimes arouse horror and compassion for the criminal even in the lawyer.†
Chpt 12
- He concealed the making of that little bag from his household, he must have remembered his humiliating fear that some one might come in and find him needle in hand, how at the slightest sound he slipped behind the screen (there is a screen in his lodgings).†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)