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humiliating

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ//

Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

adjective

  1. 1

    Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

    The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of humiliatepresent participle and gerund of humiliate

noun

  1. 1

    An act of humiliation.

    We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]

Forms

plural
humiliatings
comparative
more humiliating
superlative
most humiliating
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