All 25 Uses of
humiliate
in
The Idiot
- He was experiencing a last humiliation, the bitterest of all, at this moment—the humiliation of blushing for his own kindred in his own house.†
Chpt 1.9
- He was experiencing a last humiliation, the bitterest of all, at this moment—the humiliation of blushing for his own kindred in his own house.†
Chpt 1.9
- "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 2.5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Another thought tormented him: He wondered was this an arranged business—arranged to happen when he had guests in his house, and in anticipation of his humiliation rather than of his triumph?†
Chpt 2.7
- 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 2.8humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- 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 2.8humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- I have no sense of proportion, I know; my words and gestures do not express my ideas—they are a humiliation and abasement of the ideas, and therefore, I have no right—and I am too sensitive.†
Chpt 3.2
- Why do you humiliate yourself like this, and place yourself lower than these people?†
Chpt 3.2 *humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- Oh, don't think that I have no sense of my own humiliation!†
Chpt 3.5
- 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 3.6humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- 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 3.10humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- 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 3.10humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- I have my consolation, though it would be difficult to explain it—but I do not humiliate myself.†
Chpt 3.10humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- 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 4.2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- And you can allow yourself to humiliate so thoroughly honest a man!†
Chpt 4.3humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- Say how odd it appears to you that a man fallen to such a depth of humiliation as I, can ever have been the actual eye-witness of great events.†
Chpt 4.4
- 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 4.4humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- 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
- I only became this like after the humiliation I suffered there, "Well—that'll do; now leave me."†
Chpt 4.6
- Two letters have I written her in that strain, and I began straight off today about its being humiliating for her.†
Chpt 4.8humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- what a fool I have been to humiliate myself before them!†
Chpt 4.8humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- 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 4.12humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)