All 21 Uses of

humiliate
in
The Brothers Karamazov

In later years Pyotr Alexandrovitch Miuesov, a man very sensitive on the score of money and bourgeois honesty, pronounced the following judgment, after getting to know Alyosha: "Here is perhaps the one man in the world whom you might leave alone without a penny, in the center of an unknown town of a million inhabitants, and he would not come to harm, he would not die of cold and hunger, for he would be fed and sheltered at once; and if he were not, he would find a shelter for himself, and it would cost him no effort or humiliation.†
Chpt 1

At last Miuesov felt completely humiliated and disgraced.†
Chpt 2

humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)

What worried Alyosha more than anything was that, incredible as it seemed, his brother appeared pleased at Katerina Ivanovna's humiliation.†
Chpt 3

Oh, there's a great deal of humiliation and self-abasement about it, but it all comes from pride....I am too young and I've loved you too much.†
Chpt 4

This must have been how he came to feel it all so humiliating, and then I made that blunder, a very important one.†
Chpt 5 *

humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened with men—but though all that may come to pass, I don't accept it.†
Chpt 5

Besides, there is suffering and suffering; degrading, humiliating suffering such as humbles me—hunger, for instance—my benefactor will perhaps allow me; but when you come to higher suffering—for an idea, for instance—he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea.†
Chpt 5

On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers.†
Chpt 5

Friends and teachers, I have heard more than once, and of late one may hear it more often, that the priests, and above all the village priests, are complaining on all sides of their miserable income and their humiliating lot.†
Chpt 6

Even had there been no miracles, had there been nothing marvelous to justify his hopes, why this indignity, why this humiliation, why this premature decay, "in excess of nature," as the spiteful monks said?†
Chpt 7

That was why Alyosha's heart was bleeding, and, of course, as I have said already, the sting of it all was that the man he loved above everything on earth should be put to shame and humiliated!†
Chpt 7

humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)

But even this thought of the smell of corruption, which had seemed to him so awful and humiliating a few hours before, no longer made him feel miserable or indignant.†
Chpt 7

humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)

What was insufferably humiliating was, that after leaving things of such importance and making such sacrifices, he, Mitya, utterly worn out, should with business of such urgency be standing over this dolt on whom his whole fate depended, while he snored as though there were nothing the matter, as though he'd dropped from another planet.†
Chpt 8

What was worst of all, there was something humiliating in it, and on their side something "supercilious and scornful."†
Chpt 9

Buffoonery in them is a form of resentful irony against those to whom they daren't speak the truth, from having been for years humiliated and intimidated by them.†
Chpt 10

humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)

he was humiliated by that three thousand on account of his own meanness!†
Chpt 12

This purgatory of the spirit, this animal thirst for self-preservation, these humiliating moments of the human soul, are awful, and sometimes arouse horror and compassion for the criminal even in the lawyer.†
Chpt 12

humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)

He concealed the making of that little bag from his household, he must have remembered his humiliating fear that some one might come in and find him needle in hand, how at the slightest sound he slipped behind the screen (there is a screen in his lodgings).†
Chpt 12

Yes, she may well have exaggerated, in particular, the insult and humiliation of her offering him the money.†
Chpt 12

Definition:

extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)