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Recent Examples of humiliation
With this humiliation, Joe snaps, and, in short order, commits several shocking acts of deadly violence.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Another old hand, Rashid, took all three South African wickets to avoid total humiliation.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The operations shake-up has been widely interpreted as a humiliation for Reeves and a bid by Starmer to get things moving for a government that has promised to deliver change and economic growth for the British people.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
This is a humiliation for everyone.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Her new songs are united in their grooviness as Carpenter’s heartbreak and disappointment in her male options takes her on a thoroughly modern tour of what dating, embracing, and then flipping the script on the humiliation ritual that is being a woman who dates men.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2025
In six years since, the Chargers have just two wild-card appearances and only heartache and humiliation to show for them.
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
The director’s work has always turned on humiliation and power trips.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Only something that is equally enormous, in terms of humiliation, could suffice.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Another old hand, Rashid, took all three South African wickets to avoid total humiliation.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The operations shake-up has been widely interpreted as a humiliation for Reeves and a bid by Starmer to get things moving for a government that has promised to deliver change and economic growth for the British people.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
This is a humiliation for everyone.
—Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Her new songs are united in their grooviness as Carpenter’s heartbreak and disappointment in her male options takes her on a thoroughly modern tour of what dating, embracing, and then flipping the script on the humiliation ritual that is being a woman who dates men.
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2025
In six years since, the Chargers have just two wild-card appearances and only heartache and humiliation to show for them.
—Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
The director’s work has always turned on humiliation and power trips.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Only something that is equally enormous, in terms of humiliation, could suffice.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humiliation
dismissal
Noun
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Wilcox challenged the dismissal.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The hammer blow was last week's dismissal by the Constitutional Court of Thaksin's daughter and protege Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the sixth prime minister from or backed by the Shinawatra family to be removed by the military or judiciary.—
Panarat Thepgumpanat,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Humiliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humiliation. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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