All 18 Uses of
humiliate
in
The Idiot
- "What could it have to do with me?" he said to himself again, and stopped as if rooted to the ground by a kind of paralysis of limb such as attacks people under the stress of some humiliating recollection.†
Chpt 2.5
- With the cool insolence of a bloated capitalist, secure in his millions, he majestically drew a banknote for fifty roubles from his pocket-book and sent it to the noble young man as a humiliating piece of charity.†
Chpt 2.8
- The prince felt as very shy people often do in such a case; he was so ashamed of the conduct of other people, so humiliated for his guests, that he dared not look them in the face.†
Chpt 2.8
- Why do you humiliate yourself like this, and place yourself lower than these people?†
Chpt 3.2 *
- I told the poor people not to put much hope in me, because I was but a poor schoolboy myself—(I am not really, but I humiliated myself as much as possible in order to make them less hopeful)—but that I would go at once to the Vassili Ostroff and see my friend; and that as I knew for certain that his uncle adored him, and was absolutely devoted to him as the last hope and branch of the family, perhaps the old man might do something to oblige his nephew.†
Chpt 3.6
- This ghost had humiliated me;—nor could I bear to be subordinate to that dark, horrible force which was embodied in the form of the loathsome insect.†
Chpt 3.6
- Do not think that I humiliate myself by writing thus to you, or that I belong to that class of people who take a satisfaction in humiliating themselves—from pride.†
Chpt 3.10
- Do not think that I humiliate myself by writing thus to you, or that I belong to that class of people who take a satisfaction in humiliating themselves—from pride.†
Chpt 3.10
- I have my consolation, though it would be difficult to explain it—but I do not humiliate myself.†
Chpt 3.10
- Gania, little as he felt inclined for swagger at this moment, could not avoid showing his triumph, especially just after such humiliating remarks as those of Hippolyte.†
Chpt 4.2
- And you can allow yourself to humiliate so thoroughly honest a man!†
Chpt 4.3
- The general informed him that they must part for ever; that he was grateful, but that even from him he could not accept "signs of sympathy which were humiliating to the dignity of a man already miserable enough."†
Chpt 4.4
- And I can't understand how anyone can be so I won't say CRUEL, because the word would be humiliating to myself, but we'll say childishly vain and revengeful, as to REPROACH me with this confession, and use it as a weapon against me.†
Chpt 4.5
- Two letters have I written her in that strain, and I began straight off today about its being humiliating for her.†
Chpt 4.8
- Heavens! what a fool I have been to humiliate myself before them!†
Chpt 4.8
- How can you love a girl, and yet so humiliate her as to throw her over for the sake of another woman, before the very eyes of that other woman, when you have already made her a formal proposal of marriage?†
Chpt 4.9
- So, since attempts were being made to humiliate her, she wanted to hold her head even higher than usual, and to overwhelm them all with the beauty and taste of her toilette.†
Chpt 4.10
- Lizabetha Prokofievna, when she saw poor Muishkin, in his enfeebled and humiliated condition, had wept bitterly.†
Chpt 4.12
Definition:
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(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)