All 13 Uses of
humiliate
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.†
Chpt 1.2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.†
Chpt 1.2humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- He was crushed and even humiliated.†
Chpt 1.6 *humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- He looked askance and rather indignantly at Raskolnikov; he was so very badly dressed, and in spite of his humiliating position, his bearing was by no means in keeping with his clothes.†
Chpt 2.1humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Suddenly he recognised her, crushed and ashamed in her humiliation and gaudy finery, meekly awaiting her turn to say good-bye to her dying father.†
Chpt 2.7
- All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her.†
Chpt 3.4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her.†
Chpt 3.4
- To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them.†
Chpt 3.5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He stood as though lost in thought, and a strange, humiliated, half senseless smile strayed on his lips.†
Chpt 3.6humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- So that indeed it's not humiliating...and if I ever, to suppose an absurdity, were to be legally married, I should be positively glad of it.†
Chpt 5.1humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- I understand now where the unpleasantness is of being deceived in a legal marriage, but it's simply a despicable consequence of a despicable position in which both are humiliated.†
Chpt 5.1humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- She got up and said: 'If he's gone out, that is, if he is well, and has forgotten his mother, it's humiliating and unseemly for his mother to stand at his door begging for kindness.'†
Chpt 6.1humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- And that's humiliating for a young man of any pride, in our day especially....†
Chpt 6.5
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)