humiliating
adjective
hu·mil·i·at·ing
hyü-ˈmi-lē-ˌā-tiŋ 
yü-
: extremely destructive to one's self-respect or dignity : humbling
humiliatingly
adverb
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In fact, citizen support never materialized, and the operation was a humiliating failure for the Kennedy Administration.
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David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Playing in primetime for the first time since a humiliating Week 1 loss to TCU, will Bill Belichick's Tar Heels get their elusive first ACC win?
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Both humiliating episodes did serious damage to our reputation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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David Smilde, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Playing in primetime for the first time since a humiliating Week 1 loss to TCU, will Bill Belichick's Tar Heels get their elusive first ACC win?
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Both humiliating episodes did serious damage to our reputation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Humiliating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humiliating. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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