humiliating
B2
adj
noun
verb
Freq #7230
Meanings
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1
adj
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.
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2
noun
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 […]
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3
adj
causing awareness of your shortcomings
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4
verb
present participle and gerund of humiliate
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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adj
· causing awareness of your...
demeaning