All 50 Uses of
humiliate
in
Of Human Bondage
- He felt it was a deep humiliation that was placed upon him, and his cheeks reddened.†
Chpt 7-8
- She coughed elaborately at the door so that Philip should have time to compose himself, she felt that he would be humiliated if she came upon him in the midst of his tears, then she rattled the door handle.†
Chpt 9-10humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.†
Chpt 11-12
- It was that which rankled with Philip: he could not bear the humiliation of apologies, which were wrung from him by pain greater than he could bear.†
Chpt 11-12
- Though he dreaded humiliation more than anything in the world, he hugged himself for two or three days at the thought of the agonising joy of humiliating himself to the Glory of God.†
Chpt 13-14
- Though he dreaded humiliation more than anything in the world, he hugged himself for two or three days at the thought of the agonising joy of humiliating himself to the Glory of God.†
Chpt 13-14humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Only Tom Perkins was unconscious of the humiliation which the whole party felt.†
Chpt 15-16
- But when the time came he felt suddenly that he could accept the humiliation joyfully; and as he limped up the chancel, very small and insignificant beneath the lofty vaulting of the Cathedral, he offered consciously his deformity as a sacrifice to the God who loved him.†
Chpt 17-18
- The humiliations he suffered when first he went to school had caused in him a shrinking from his fellows which he could never entirely overcome; he remained shy and silent.†
Chpt 17-18
- He was afraid of humiliating himself.†
Chpt 19-20 *humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He had wanted to revenge himself for the pain and the humiliation he had endured.†
Chpt 19-20
- He felt almost sick with humiliation, the humiliation of having to ask and the humiliation of the curt refusal.†
Chpt 21-22
- He felt almost sick with humiliation, the humiliation of having to ask and the humiliation of the curt refusal.†
Chpt 21-22
- He felt almost sick with humiliation, the humiliation of having to ask and the humiliation of the curt refusal.†
Chpt 21-22
- That was a humiliation he could never put upon himself.†
Chpt 21-22
- It was possible that a merciful judge, reserving the flames of hell for the heathen, Mahommedans, Buddhists, and the rest, would spare Dissenters and Roman Catholics (though at the cost of how much humiliation when they were made to realise their error!)†
Chpt 27-28
- Next day, in order to make the humiliation more public, at supper she called down the table to Cacilie.†
Chpt 29-30
- It was humiliating that if Miss Wilkinson insisted upon his telling her of his adventures in Heidelberg he would have nothing to tell.†
Chpt 33-34humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He felt for the first time the humiliation of poverty.†
Chpt 37-38
- At first his manner was merely gruff and repellent, but as he discovered that Philip had no gift for accountancy he took pleasure in humiliating him; his attacks were gross and silly, but they wounded Philip, and in self-defence he assumed an attitude of superiority which he did not feel.†
Chpt 37-38humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He did not like being blamed, and it humiliated him, when, having been given accounts to make fair copies of, Mr. Goodworthy was not satisfied and gave them to another clerk to do.†
Chpt 37-38humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- He felt that he was fit for something better than to add up accounts, and it was humiliating that he did so ill something which seemed contemptible.†
Chpt 37-38humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Philip grew impatient; it was humiliating that Lawson should think him capable of being seriously disturbed by so trivial a calamity and would not realise that his dejection was due to a deep-seated distrust of his powers.†
Chpt 49-50
- It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.†
Chpt 51-52
- He remembered the bitterness of his life at school, the humiliation which he had endured, the banter which had made him morbidly afraid of making himself ridiculous; and he remembered the loneliness he had felt since, faced with the world, the disillusion and the disappointment caused by the difference between what it promised to his active imagination and what it gave.†
Chpt 53-54
- He laughed angrily at his own foolishness: it was absurd to care what an anaemic little waitress said to him; but he was strangely humiliated.†
Chpt 55-56humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Though no one knew of the humiliation but Dunsford, and he had certainly forgotten, Philip felt that he could have no peace till he had wiped it out.†
Chpt 55-56
- She seemed to be constantly humiliating him, and for each snub that he endured he owed her a grudge.†
Chpt 57-58humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He thought she might beckon to him, he was willing to forget everything, he was ready for any humiliation, but she had turned away, and apparently had ceased to trouble about him.†
Chpt 57-58
- Of course it would be humiliating to go back to the shop as though nothing had happened, but he had not much self-respect left.†
Chpt 59-60humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- She seemed anxious to make him drink up the cup of his humiliation; but he knew her well enough to know that she spoke at random; she hurt him frightfully, and never even tried to.†
Chpt 59-60
- He could not understand how he had submitted to the dishonour of such a love; and when he thought of Mildred it was with angry hatred, because she had submitted him to so much humiliation.†
Chpt 65-66
- He felt dreadfully humiliated.†
Chpt 69-70humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Nor did he want to have to confess to Mildred that he had failed: though the examination was difficult and the majority of candidates were ploughed at the first attempt, he knew that she would think less well of him if he did not succeed; she had a peculiarly humiliating way of showing what she thought.†
Chpt 73-74humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He gave a little laugh of derision at his own humiliation.†
Chpt 75-76
- He knew what he was going to say was humiliating, but he was broken down with jealousy and desire.†
Chpt 77-78humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He was ready for any compromise, prepared for more degrading humiliations still, if he could only gratify his desire.†
Chpt 77-78
- You needn't have allowed me to humiliate myself before you.'†
Chpt 79-80humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- He was thinking of his long, humiliating confession.†
Chpt 79-80humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He could not understand why the boy felt none of the humiliation which always oppressed himself.†
Chpt 83-84
- The recollection of her suffering and of his own humiliation seemed to render more overwhelming the compassion he felt now.†
Chpt 89-90
- And there's nothing humiliating to you in it.'†
Chpt 91-92humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- I don't want to humiliate you, but I simply can't.†
Chpt 93-94humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- It's so humiliating,' she said sulkily.†
Chpt 93-94humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- She felt humiliated and angry, but she had a sort of na tive insolence which carried her through.†
Chpt 95-96humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Battle after battle, Magersfontein, Colenso, Spion Kop, lost on the playing fields of Eton, had humiliated the nation and dealt the death-blow to the prestige of the aristocracy and gentry who till then had found no one seriously to oppose their assertion that they possessed a natural instinct of government.†
Chpt 97-98
- He was seized with a sense of his misery; and he did not know what on earth to do: he was ashamed at having slept on the Embankment; it seemed peculiarly humiliating, and he felt his cheeks flush in the darkness.†
Chpt 99-100humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He had a queer feeling that by accepting every humiliation, by going out to meet it even, he was forcing the hand of fate.†
Chpt 99-100
- Every night he swore that nothing would induce him to put up with such another and determined next morning to write to his uncle, or to Mr. Nixon, the solicitor, or to Lawson; but when the time came he could not bring himself to make the humiliating confession of his utter failure.†
Chpt 99-100humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Moreover, he took irresistible dislikes to the places where he had been miserable: he remembered the humiliation he had endured when he had waited in that studio, ravenous with hunger, for Lawson to offer him a meal, and the last occasion when he had taken the five shillings off him.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)