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  • No; there's nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.   (source)
    humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity, self-respect, or pride)
  • Humiliated him.†   (source)
  • For a moment, I'm humiliated, then I head back to the bull's-eye.†   (source)
  • Gasping and humiliated, he ran straight off the track and hid under the bleachers.†   (source)
  • Maybe he was in a hurry to bring the shoes to his father, or maybe he was trying to run away from his miserable and humiliating day at school.†   (source)
  • I screamed, angry and humiliated.†   (source)
  • How unsightly, and therefore how humiliating.†   (source)
  • He was hungry, tired, dejected, and now humiliated.†   (source)
  • It's humiliating to say that out loud.†   (source)
  • This was a public rally intended to humiliate and break down the enemies of the revolution through verbal and physical abuse until they confessed to their crimes before the crowd.†   (source)
  • Humiliated?†   (source)
  • "You wanted to humiliate me," I said.†   (source)
  • The following events or feelings are some of the most common ACEs: being sworn at, insulted, or humiliated by parents
    being pushed, grabbed, or having something thrown at
    you
    feeling that your family didn't support each other
    having parents who were separated or divorced
    living with an alcoholic or a drug user
    living with someone who was depressed or attempted
    suicide
    watching a loved one be physically abused.
    ACEs happen everywhere, in every community.†   (source)
  • We can't do anything to humiliate them.†   (source)
  • Thomas was humiliated and scared.†   (source)
  • Your government steals my money, and your football squad recently humiliated us.†   (source)
  • Could anything be more humiliating?†   (source)
  • It must have been humiliating to be shaved in preparation for an execution.†   (source)
  • What was making Harry feel so horrified and unhappy was not being shouted at or having jars thrown at him; it was that he knew how it felt to be humiliated in the middle of a circle of onlookers, knew exactly how Snape had felt as his father had taunted him, and that judging from what he had just seen, his father had been every bit as arrogant as Snape had always told him.†   (source)
  • The phrase 'written on behalf of is …. humiliating."†   (source)
  • She humiliated me in class, and later she told me she'd keep doing it — or even worse — unless I agreed to help her.†   (source)
  • They have to come up with fancy picnic lunches and then be humiliated in front of the whole school while girls bid to have lunch with them.†   (source)
  • But still, it was a little humiliating to be slower than a tree.†   (source)
  • Just how long have you been planning to humiliate my family?†   (source)
  • The ritual affirmed who we were despite the humiliating restrictions outside our door.†   (source)
  • He humiliated you.†   (source)
  • She wouldn't be humiliated by anything, least of all being dirty.†   (source)
  • She had flirted with him, she had taunted him, she had humiliated him—or she had tried to.†   (source)
  • This country has so many ways of humiliating, of disappointing.†   (source)
  • It is humiliating.†   (source)
  • I pulled off the blankets and stood up, humiliated.†   (source)
  • Morning calisthenics in the yard, every squad in the regiment, over three hundred troops, and Reznik picks this time to publicly humiliate me.†   (source)
  • He stood on the sidewalk, awkward and humiliated, trouser legs flapping around his ankles, socks falling down.†   (source)
  • The idea was to humiliate him.†   (source)
  • Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.†   (source)
  • Alyss got into fights and traded insults with her tormentors, often returning home scraped, bruised, and humiliated.†   (source)
  • I was so humiliated I almost started to cry.†   (source)
  • The teacher was humiliated and furious.†   (source)
  • This story humiliated me every time he told it, to the pastor of our church, to our neighbor Mrs. Stead, who was a therapist and whose take on it he wanted to hear, and to everyone who ever said "Susie has a lot of spunk!"†   (source)
  • I turned back, humiliated.†   (source)
  • Mother has me wear it every day as her way to humiliate me.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the afternoon she is furious with herself, humiliated at the prospect of arriving in Calcutta empty-handed apart from the sweaters and the paintbrushes.†   (source)
  • Tita knew perfectly well that her mother felt profoundly humiliated because not only did she have to allow Tita back into her house again but until she recovered she needed Tita to take care of her.†   (source)
  • It was not the first time in his life he had been humiliated, and it would not be the last.†   (source)
  • I'm too humiliated.†   (source)
  • It was humiliating to be in the same room.†   (source)
  • The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye.†   (source)
  • I had been angry enough, frightened enough, humiliated enough to try.†   (source)
  • The anger in her eyes seemed to say, I was your friend, and you humiliate me like this?†   (source)
  • Before I'd been tossed in with a tight, competitive bunch of older boys, with a label reading "gifted" tied around my neck, I'd never been especially reviled or humiliated at school.†   (source)
  • As he continued to hold forth in his swampy, East Texas drawl about the numerous follies of the welfare state, I got up and left the table to avoid humiliating myself further.†   (source)
  • As if I haven't already been completely humiliated—now he has to apologize for calling me ugly.†   (source)
  • We need to humiliate him.†   (source)
  • But their odyssey comes to a humiliating halt.†   (source)
  • One hundred lousy bucks a day to be publicly ridiculed and humiliated.†   (source)
  • Humiliating situation.†   (source)
  • The whole thing seemed designed to humiliate and brainwash us into following orders without question, no matter how stupid they might be, but I adapted more quickly than a lot of the guys.†   (source)
  • How humiliating!†   (source)
  • Instead, the humiliating expectations and traditions of segregation creep over you, slowly stealing a teaspoonful of your self-esteem each day.†   (source)
  • He was pretty humiliated, and of course we reamed him out.†   (source)
  • A humiliating event in the church, and rising contentions in the village.†   (source)
  • It was so humiliating.†   (source)
  • I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.†   (source)
  • I felt so sorry for her, and so humiliated, Celie.†   (source)
  • The situation appeared hopeless, and humiliating for all concerned.†   (source)
  • In the bigger scheme of things, in the context of all the death and destruction that Muslim extremists have visited upon this world, a bunch of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated does not ring my personal alarm bell.†   (source)
  • It's humiliating.†   (source)
  • If the fair failed, Burnham knew, the nation's honor would be tarnished, Chicago humiliated, and his own firm dealt a crushing blow.†   (source)
  • His bike is a one-speed with a coaster brake and therefore deeply humiliating, and riding it to run an errand for his mother makes it even worse.†   (source)
  • It was humiliating to Mae to have her friends' parents say, "Hey, saw your mom at the lot," or "Tell your dad thanks again for comping me the other day," but soon their finances stabilized, and they could hire a couple guys to trade shifts.†   (source)
  • But it was more than appetite that humiliated him and made him wonder if schoolteacher was right.†   (source)
  • Carl vehemently denied the charges and felt humiliated by the publicity surrounding the case.†   (source)
  • If I could hold hack, I'd just humiliate Brittain in the pool again, but we won't be in the water for several hours and I can't wait.†   (source)
  • Steffie became upset every time something shameful or humiliating seemed about to happen to someone on the screen.†   (source)
  • —only to be found out and publicly humiliated before all the other fat ladies.†   (source)
  • She felt somehow humiliated by this public revolt in her area of jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue.†   (source)
  • But more than that, I felt humiliated.†   (source)
  • This idiotic and humiliating requirement made Henryk and me incandescent with rage.†   (source)
  • He says that he had a way of pointing out people's faults and humiliating them while maintaining his own sense of false power and control.†   (source)
  • It's not as if I humiliated my husband at a summer barbecue by shouting abuse at the wife of one of his friends.†   (source)
  • Do you know how humiliating that is?†   (source)
  • He broke down and cried, humiliated, when his stepbrothers got the best of him in a backyard push-up contest, and his sisters saw him sink even deeper after a much-anticipated trip to California.†   (source)
  • I sat at the bottom of the bathtub, humiliated, trying not to cry.†   (source)
  • He contributed to domestic peace with a quotidian act that was more humiliating than humble: he wiped the rim of the bowl with toilet paper each time he used it.†   (source)
  • Marley had made a mockery of everything she preached about dogs and discipline; he had publicly humiliated her.†   (source)
  • At first they lived in a Beacon Hill boardinghouse where the walls were plastered with pictures from magazines and where the white people on the streets outside treated them with humiliating disdain.†   (source)
  • I felt so humiliated and exposed that I had to cover my face.†   (source)
  • "I was humiliated among my peers," Cal said.†   (source)
  • His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear.†   (source)
  • For her the police were a hostile force who over the years had put her under arrest or humiliated her.†   (source)
  • He rushed back to the street, cursing, dismayed, humiliated, heading for the safety of his cousin's.†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard anything more humiliating?†   (source)
  • On the surface, this was a bad thing because it was, well, humiliating.†   (source)
  • This was very humiliating to me, but I couldn't control myself.†   (source)
  • Would they get stuck together like jammed gears and have to be taken to the emergency room at the hospital, and how totally humiliating would that be?†   (source)
  • Rolling my eyes, I grab my books and let the guy have his kicks by humiliating me in front of an audience.†   (source)
  • The sea of memory washed over him, again and again, and each time it receded another humiliated Eric was left writhing on the sands.†   (source)
  • All right, strange young girl,' he said in a loud voice that I knew was meant to humiliate me.†   (source)
  • Even though it was a donkey that unseated me, I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.†   (source)
  • ' Since he outed, Trent had been teased, humiliated, beaten, even semitortured by some pickup truck cowboys who didn't have a clue about the real meaning of masculinity.†   (source)
  • So I had to take my tray and find a place to squeeze in at Amos's table, which was kind of humiliating.†   (source)
  • But it's still humiliating.†   (source)
  • So I fall back and give up and let the pee pour out, activating a hot salt wire down my left leg that sets off humiliating alarms, sirens, spotlights, everybody up yelling and running around and the big black boys knocking the crowd aside right and left as the both of them rush headlong at me, waving awful mops of wet copper wires cracking and spitting as they short with the water.†   (source)
  • She was terrified that her hastily assembled team stood a good chance of getting humiliated by their opponents.†   (source)
  • I'll just be humiliated.†   (source)
  • Aside from bringing back a few humiliating memories of school sports, I'm fine, honestly—what?"†   (source)
  • He wouldn't talk to me, except to order me around or humiliate me in some way.†   (source)
  • Three minutes into my self-surrender, and I already felt humiliated and beaten.†   (source)
  • Not even in the king's prison had I been this humiliated.†   (source)
  • Why are women so much more likely to be stripped naked and sexually humiliated than men?†   (source)
  • I'm ready for Miss Moore to straighten her spine and humiliate Ann in front of everyone by forcing her to admit her shame—and calling her all manner of horrible names as well.†   (source)
  • Part of her wanted to scream at him, humiliate him, but she held back.†   (source)
  • We do not hit them, we don't humiliate them or cause them any bodily harm for the purpose of entertainment.†   (source)
  • Divorced women are humiliated, despised, suffering worse than an animal's fate.†   (source)
  • A mustachioed Pakistani waiter, looking humiliated under his massive sombrero, stopped at the table to ask if they were ordering from the Continental buffet, or if the sahibs would perhaps like to take dinner from the taco bar.†   (source)
  • Make the dipshit mistake of calling it a "gun" and you got humiliated before the entire company—forced to run up and down in front of your buddies in your skivvies, one hand holding your rifle and the other your gonads, screaming over and over: "This is my rifle and this is my gun!†   (source)
  • I was humiliated, I wanted to explain, Believe me, I'd never mistake myself for anyone special.†   (source)
  • Yes, the famous Nicholas Jenks humiliated me….†   (source)
  • And with a man's pride I wanted to prove that to her, to humiliate her for what she had said to me, for the cheap vanity of her provocation and the eyes that looked away from me now in disgust.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were closed, but the little girl, because of the shadows, her own distance, and her imagination, thought she saw a supplicating and humiliated expression on her sister's face.†   (source)
  • He was overcome with a humiliating feeling of impotence and was ready to weep in self-pity.†   (source)
  • I humiliated her in front of the other women, revealing every weakness.†   (source)
  • Savannah and Emily were standing off to the side, enjoying every minute of what was maybe the most humiliating moment of Lena's life.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to be humiliated if I don't get in," he said.†   (source)
  • He returned, humiliated, to address his humiliated nation.†   (source)
  • I feel humiliated.†   (source)
  • Annoyed and humiliated by the engine resisting him, his lips drew back in a snarl.†   (source)
  • Clary knew she probably ought to feel humiliated as well as angry, but she didn't.†   (source)
  • Mr. Crawford sat down, thoroughly chastised and humiliated.†   (source)
  • He would humiliate this traitor and send him away yelping with his tail tucked between his legs.†   (source)
  • But deep down I don't believe that serving food is humiliating.†   (source)
  • But One Esk would never beat me or humiliate me, or rape me, for no purpose but to show its power over me, or to satisfy some sick amusement.†   (source)
  • You don't want to go home to be humiliated, I understand that, because you have some vague notions about dignity.†   (source)
  • An attack on Fort Sullivan at Charleston in June had been such a humiliating defeat for the British that the campaign had to be abandoned, and largely because Clinton had been too cautious.†   (source)
  • He debases and humiliates them after death to show his disgust and his superiority.†   (source)
  • All phone-ins seemed to have these ruthless wise guy hosts nowadays and Annie could never understand why people kept calling, knowing full well they would get humiliated.†   (source)
  • He said that David had humiliated Astaroth before all and that none would follow him again.†   (source)
  • Through the valley flowed a Mississippi of humiliated Americans.†   (source)
  • He found that people had a fear of being embarrassed or humiliated, of being singled out for special attention.†   (source)
  • To curse someone doubly, one would say, "May you spill borrowed salt" -- may you lose what you humiliated yourself to obtain.†   (source)
  • He brutally tears into Chester Bowles with words designed to humiliate.†   (source)
  • It must be my stunned and humiliated expression that they're looking at.†   (source)
  • He understood what she wanted him to do from her first few words and answered only with an abrupt "Yes, ma'am," but he was bent over his charts by the time the others came following her up the iron stairway, he was grimly at work on the most humiliating job of calculation he had ever had to perform in his long career.†   (source)
  • We've played Humiliate the Host …. we've gone through that one …. what shall we do now?†   (source)
  • Miri no longer expects anything from her daughter, except to be challenged, berated and humiliated.†   (source)
  • Like you, the cadre tortured, humiliated, beat, and otherwise abused me during my plebe year.†   (source)
  • If Mervyn was to humiliate her she could embarrass him by retaliating with some grand gesture—whether it was a celebrated walk through the jungle or actually holding her breath until she fainted at the Kitulgala resthouse when she saw him beginning to drink too much, so that he had to stop and drive her home.†   (source)
  • To think that Belinda and I actually have such a despicable thing in common is truly a shock to the system (not to mention totally humiliating).†   (source)
  • Yes, she tried to humiliate Gina more than once.†   (source)
  • He vaguely understood that they had been humiliated, that he had affronted the holiness of order, and that at this moment it was distinctly disadvantageous to be Italian.†   (source)
  • A South Carolina planter's son wrote from the Petersburg trenches that this "humiliating" measure would "throw away what we have toiled so hard to maintain."†   (source)
  • It is too humiliating.†   (source)
  • A thousand humiliating slaps from the drow's scimitars had taught Wulfgar that the first blow was not nearly as important as the last.†   (source)
  • Dear Self, no one in the whole world has ever been so embarrassed and humiliated.†   (source)
  • Green, on the other hand, took obvious pleasure in harassing and humiliating Baker every chance he got.†   (source)
  • In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs.†   (source)
  • After humiliating the thirst-crazed Crusader force at the Battle of Hattin near Tiberias—Saladin personally sliced off the arm of Raynald of Chatillon—the Muslims reclaimed Jerusalem after a negotiated surrender.†   (source)
  • Don't humiliate us.†   (source)
  • He would not allow himself to be humiliated.†   (source)
  • The style, however, as now can be seen, continues to possess an unruffled, wryly sardonic, self-anatomizing quality which Gide might have admired had he ever been able to peruse these humiliated pages: I might be tipped off to what is going on when we get into the taxi after Gage & Tollner's.†   (source)
  • To humiliate me, and to serve as a reminder to my brothers, no doubt, as to the price of defying our liege.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel humiliated.†   (source)
  • It was a slow, tout-like, humiliating business.†   (source)
  • But I had to admit that what Sergeant Zim had taken, and swallowed, was so completely humiliating and withering as to make the worst I had ever heard or overhead from a sergeant sound like a love song.†   (source)
  • Through all this, the son let him commit his foolish acts, let him court for his affection, let him humiliate himself every day by giving in to his moods.†   (source)
  • Its presence humiliated him.†   (source)
  • And I never feel humiliated—on the contrary!†   (source)
  • One avoids looking at them, the more so because one is conscious she is sensitive about their appearance and humiliated by her inability to control the nervousness which draws attention to them.†   (source)
  • Democratic candidates for the Missouri Legislature were required to pledge to vote for his re-election under pain of humiliating defeat in their own campaigns.†   (source)
  • The youngest child in Natchez would have known that this was a remarkable and wonderful figure that had humiliated itself by disguise.†   (source)
  • She put out, carefully, so much meal, and so much sugar; and watched the left-overs from their own food with an extraordinary, humiliating capacity for remembering every cold potato and every piece of bread, asking for them if they were missing.†   (source)
  • ...he did not see how Blythe could do it, and HE, for his part, could never humiliate himself so.   (source)
  • If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, "Give this man your seat.'" Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.   (source)
  • Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth...   (source)
  • ...she felt that he would be humiliated if she came upon him in the midst of his tears,   (source)
  • The team was humiliated by the 55 to 3 loss.
  • He looked completely humiliated, his hands bleeding from clawing at the rocks.†   (source)
  • "It's nothing to worry about," I said, before the silence got humiliating for him.†   (source)
  • He would say from the other side of the door, You humiliate me.†   (source)
  • Once she even had to compose a humiliating letter to the minister.†   (source)
  • He had no wish to humiliate my father, only to see the last of him.†   (source)
  • Being publicly humiliated, tortured, and executed.†   (source)
  • Harry felt sick and humiliated every time he thought of them.†   (source)
  • I have never in my entire life been so humiliated.†   (source)
  • Like he needs to prove his power by humiliating you?†   (source)
  • Harry could not help but feel a little humiliated as he got into the sidecar.†   (source)
  • Then the scratchy towels and the dreadful and humiliating absence of dirt.†   (source)
  • The implication sank in: two boys whom Meg had humiliated, preparing for payback.†   (source)
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