All 28 Uses of
humiliate
in
Gone with the Wind
- Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.†
Chpt 1.6 *humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- As the whisperings merged together violently, questioning, interrupting, Scarlett felt herself go cold with fear and humiliation.†
Chpt 1.6
- She would have to see it through, bear all the malice of the girls and her own humiliation and heartbreak.†
Chpt 1.6
- She was looking at the dirty handkerchief, and humiliation and fury were filling her.†
Chpt 2.13
- She would lead him a chase that would make up for even that awful humiliation of the day he witnessed her slapping Ashley.†
Chpt 3.19
- It was useless for the girls to argue hotly that such conduct humiliated the soldiers.†
Chpt 3.30humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Mammy replied that the girls would be a sight more humiliated if they found lice upon themselves.†
Chpt 3.30
- He gave her a little something every month to live on and, though it was very humiliating to take money from him, she had to do it.†
Chpt 4.33humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- She blushed to her hair line and her humiliation was complete.†
Chpt 4.34
- She hoped they did hang him, so she would never have to face him again with his knowledge of her disgrace and her humiliation.†
Chpt 4.35
- The humiliating events of the morning with Rhett were pushed from her mind by the excitement of seeing so many people and hearing music again.†
Chpt 4.35humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- The memory of her humiliation at his hands made her go crimson with shame.†
Chpt 4.36
- Some day, she thought viciously, when the store was on its feet and the mill doing nicely and she had money, she would make Rhett Butler pay for the misery and humiliation he was causing her.†
Chpt 4.36
- His frequent calls at Aunt Pitty's house were the greatest humiliation of all.†
Chpt 4.36
- Others who were permitted to take the oath, hotly refused to do so, scorning to swear allegiance to a government which was deliberately subjecting them to cruelty and humiliation.†
Chpt 4.37
- Instantly a passion of tenderness, of grief for his humiliation swamped her, made her eyes sting.†
Chpt 4.38
- Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was as humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.†
Chpt 4.38humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Not only had she vomited before a man—in itself as horrible a contretemps as could overtake a woman—but by doing so, the humiliating fact of her pregnancy must now be evident.†
Chpt 4.38
- Scarlett would have suffered agonies of humiliation at having friends find her without draperies and carpets and cushions and the proper number of chairs and teacups and spoons.†
Chpt 4.41
- Once the hard times were disposed of, the ladies spoke of the increasing impudence of the negroes and the outrages of the Carpetbaggers and the humiliation of having the Yankee soldiers loafing on every corner.†
Chpt 4.41
- How ill bred of you, my dear, to brag of such a thing in the face of my humiliation.†
Chpt 4.43
- The men felt less humiliation at taking their lives from Belle than the women did, for many of them thought her a good sort.†
Chpt 4.46
- The long campaign which had begun when Sherman moved southward from above Dalton, four years before, had finally reached its climax, and the state's humiliation was complete.†
Chpt 4.47
- She hardly knew how to face Rhett, so great was her humiliation, but the affair seemed only to amuse him.†
Chpt 5.48
- Do you think I'm going to have her humiliated like Wade for things that aren't her fault but yours and mine?†
Chpt 5.52humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- He took the strings of the stays in his hands and jerked them so hard that she cried out, frightened, humiliated, embarrassed at such an untoward performance.†
Chpt 5.53
- He was going out of his way to hurt and humiliate her and she writhed as she thought how she had longed for his homecoming, while all the time he was drunk and brawling with police in a bawdy house.†
Chpt 5.54humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- Finances at the red-brick house would have been in a deplorable state, but for Uncle Henry's intervention, and it humiliated Pitty to take money from him.†
Chpt 5.55humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)