All 13 Uses of
humiliate
in
Nineteen Minutes
- Would they get stuck together like jammed gears and have to be taken to the emergency room at the hospital, and how totally humiliating would that be?†
Chpt 1 *humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- The score was climbing to something humiliating in the last minute of the final quarter-Sterling 24, Rivendell 2-and Derek was telling Peter another joke.†
Chpt 1
- He glanced up long enough to see that the team had not gone into the locker room, as usual, but hung around to watch this latest humiliation.†
Chpt 1
- 'Stop,' he said softly, and then he turned around to the next three students waiting in line to humiliate Dolores.†
Chpt 1humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- But being the object of his humiliation felt like a slap.†
Chpt 1
- He hadn't said those words yet, and she hadn't said them either, even though she felt them, because if he didn't say them back then Josie was sure she'd simply evaporate on the spot from sheer humiliation.†
Chpt 1
- The common denominator is being humiliated.†
Chpt 1humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- But what would make her friends do something like this, something so totally humiliating?†
Chpt 1humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- It continued up to shortly before the shooting, when he suffered public humiliation after his romantic interest in a classmate was revealed.†
Chpt 2
- It was the same email that, weeks before, had been sent to the entire school, and that had preceded an even greater humiliation, when his pants were pulled down in the cafeteria.†
Chpt 2
- Having this one secure zone suddenly become yet another place where humiliation occurred is what triggered the break.†
Chpt 2
- During the actual incidents of bullying, a child with PTSD might retreat into an altered state of consciousness-a dissociation from reality to keep him from feeling pain or humiliation while the incident occurs.†
Chpt 2
- 'Peter told you he had been humiliated in the cafeteria,' she said.†
Chpt 2humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)