Sample Sentences for
humiliate
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    Shawn had meant it to humiliate me, to lock me in time, into an old idea of myself.  (source)
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    The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me.  (source)
    humiliated = extremely embarrassed or with wounded dignity
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    After four-to-six weeks of backbreaking slave labor, grueling homework assignments, and humiliating good behavior at school, a package arrived in George's mailbox from the Li'l Wiseguy Novelty Company.  (source)
    humiliating = extremely embarrassing
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    Now he felt only humiliation and terror.†  (source)
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    Our country had been humiliated and we wanted to know why.  (source)
    humiliated = embarrassed (suffered a decrease in dignity)
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    It is humiliating before others to have a diarrhoea  (source)
    humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
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    I knew he wanted to humiliate us on the opening play.  (source)
    humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity)
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    Watching the succession of her humiliations is like watching a child under torture.†  (source)
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    The sight of their own hard lot and of their weakness, which is daily contrasted with the happiness and power of some of their fellow-creatures, excites in their hearts at the same time the sentiments of anger and of fear: the consciousness of their inferiority and of their dependence irritates while it humiliates them.†  (source)
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    Humiliatingly, she was cast down with the younger kids, who were only just learning the alphabet.  (source)
    Humiliatingly = causing a loss of dignity
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    It was more a wish to appear calm, unhumiliated, to feel that the events were normal.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhumiliated means not and reverses the meaning of humiliated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    What he deserved, I decided in that moment, was public humiliation and defeat.†  (source)
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    For a moment, I'm humiliated, then I head back to the bull's-eye.†  (source)
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