All 9 Uses of
humiliate
in
Notes from the Underground
- And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Those moans express in the first place all the aimlessness of your pain, which is so humiliating to your consciousness; the whole legal system of nature on which you spit disdainfully, of course, but from which you suffer all the same while she does not.†
Chpt 1.4
- "Isn't that shameful, isn't that humiliating?" you will say, perhaps, wagging your heads contemptuously.†
Chpt 1.11
- Then, perhaps, we would be reconciled and drink to our everlasting friendship; but what was most bitter and humiliating for me was that I knew even then, knew fully and for certain, that I needed nothing of all this really, that I did not really want to crush, to subdue, to attract them, and that I did not care a straw really for the result, even if I did achieve it.†
Chpt 2.3
- I sat down; the servant began laying the table; I felt even more humiliated when he was present.†
Chpt 2.4
- No one paid any attention to me, and I sat crushed and humiliated.†
Chpt 2.4
- I had been humiliated, so I wanted to humiliate; I had been treated like a rag, so I wanted to show my power….†
Chpt 2.9
- I had been humiliated, so I wanted to humiliate; I had been treated like a rag, so I wanted to show my power….†
Chpt 2.9
- The thought, too, came into my overwrought brain that our parts now were completely changed, that she was now the heroine, while I was just a crushed and humiliated creature as she had been before me that night--four days before….†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)