Definition of humiliating
: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity : humbling
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The most humiliating instance had come in the 10th inning.
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The particular form his rebellion takes says a lot about his own demons, at which Diamond, Gordon, and Hellman give us a long, hard, humiliating look late in the play.
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Trump has made sport of publicly humiliating Sessions to the point that Sessions has pushed back at times.
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His first big success was also his most humiliating failure.
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His first big success was also his most humiliating failure.
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After many missed cuts, a humiliating DUI arrest, painful back problems and a series of surgeries, Mr. Woods has apparently returned to form.
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Putin has nurtured an image as the man who brought the country from crisis after the humiliating collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a chaotic transition to a market economy.
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The humiliating message: The only place a British company would be held to account for corruption was in a U.S. courtroom.
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First Known Use of humiliating
1757
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