How To Use Humiliate In A Sentence

Maybe she was embarrassed and humiliated, but she didn't show it - she dealt with the situation with quiet calm, as if she'd been through it a hundred times before.
She could, however, humiliate the princess before her subjects.
However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
They ridiculed leaked U.S. plans to install a proconsul in the Douglas MacArthur mold, strutting around with a cob pipe and dictating orders to a humiliated people.
If I'm out in public with a woman who is doing her best to embarrass or humiliate me, I'll walk away.

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Bucks redeemed themselves against opponents who humiliated them 5-1 in a Rothmans Cup clash earlier in the season.
Randi had for decades used his insider's knowledge of the flim-flam trade to humiliate a generation of occultists.
I had never received one single complaint against me," claimed the humiliated doctor.
Their faces are hidden, they are wearing tall hats and are manacled and humiliated.
Then, last Saturday, Liverpool adjusted to cope with the pre-match loss of two key players, came back from conceding an early goal, and proceeded to thoroughly humiliate Manchester United at Old Trafford: "Ferguson, standing on the touchline in a coat reminiscent of Michael Foot, had the legs cut from under him and took to twitching from a seat in the dugout," whilst Wayne Rooney was reduced to an arm-whirling figure of anger and despair. Archive 2009-03-01
I want those horrible soldiers who were responsible for this to be publicly punished and humiliated.
It comes as no surprise that he and his craven right-wing thugs would attempt to humiliate and heap further indignities upon the former hostages by mulcting them of $6000 + for Japan's ‘out of pocket expenses’.
He must resign before Andreyev had the chance to force him out and humiliate him further. WALL GAMES
I refused, humiliated and ashamed that I even had the chutzpah to belay Bean, let alone allow him to fall on my watch. Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again
`You see," said Hughes, `out there there's people who want to humiliate you. THE SCAR
It was just me and him there, so there was no one to humiliate me in front of.
In one climactic scene, he is publicly and sadistically humiliated by the king.
And then she thought of the more gradual but no less sure way he had humiliated her over the years. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
Ever since then he has made it his mission to embarrass and humiliate women as much as possible.
They had been publicly assaulted and humiliated in front of a crowd of people and were beside themselves with rage.
The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.
The papers go out of their way to misgender and belittle, replacing every correct gender reference with one that seems calculated to humiliate.
They had been publicly assaulted and humiliated in front of a crowd of people and were beside themselves with rage.
I'm embarrassed and humiliated to think that I actually live in a place where this sort of thing seems to be acceptable, and where some will invoke race to excuse it.
Mr Pinheiro said last month after the generals humiliated him by bugging his privileged conversations that reconciliation talks in Burma are going nowhere.
He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students.
Lowe was publicly humiliated by his colleagues.
The last time I had it, a woman reporter was humiliated and verbally abused in a National Football League locker room.
Her boss humiliated her in front of all her colleagues.
It's like watching Good Will Hunting, when you talk to people who like to overanalyze thing, when Affleck gets humiliated for not having culture and Will shows everybody that the guys is just talking out of his ass. Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video Features the Pussy Wagon From Kill Bill | /Film
He would have had to commit seppuku at the end of the interview, because he would have been humiliated worse than anyone in the history of the world.
The Baroness had been humiliated publicly for years by Erik's mother Frieda over Erik being the illegitimate son of the late Baron Otto. SHARDS OF A BROKEN CROWN
`You see," said Hughes, `out there there's people who want to humiliate you. THE SCAR
They were tortured, humiliated and abused in gross contravention of the Geneva convention.
Reports of a nation humiliated because it has been reduced to choosing between a crook clinging to office and an unvarnished fascist are everywhere.
I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
Nervous of legal action from passengers humiliated by fouling themselves in their seats, most carriers allowed crew to decide whether the person requesting admission to the smallest part of the plane was desperate or a desperado.
Defeated, humiliated and hobbling on crutches outside Atlanta's Olympic stadium in 1996, she concluded that if athletics could be so cruel she didn't need it.
Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
He was ashamed and bitterly humiliated, and very lonely.
Sheila Rae, who loves to rip the limbs off of trees, humiliates the kid who steals her jump rope.
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.
So they decide to do what one of Warman's wards calls "the ultimate expression of free speech": they're going to physically attack Icke in public, by throwing a pie in his face, to "humiliate" him. Ezra Levant: January 2008 Archives
‘I know,’ she said, ‘and you can't imagine how that humiliates me.’
I was surrounded by a disgusting and putrid evil wanting nothing more than to humiliate and destroy me.
The Ministry of Transportation suspended my license and I was extremely embarrassed and humiliated.
Their stock-in-trade is to dehumanize, humiliate and relegate human beings to caricatures. Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: "Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"
Humiliated, Julia grabs her coat from the ground and slips into it quickly, eager not to be spotted by anybody.
A hundred days have swept past in a heady parade of media applause, a new baby, a divided Labour party and humiliated Liberal Democrats.
The amorous gaze of the disguised daimio suddenly affected her with such ill-disguised mirth that the Japanese felt deeply hurt and humiliated. The Child of Pleasure
He was driven by feelings of resentment and hatred, and felt compelled not only to defeat his enemies, but to humiliate them.
Henceforward she must feel humiliated and disgraced in his sight. North and South
Her boss humiliated her in front of all her colleagues.
Despite promises of police reform, police continue to use torture to intimidate, harass and humiliate women detainees to extract money or information.
He felt humiliated and helpless; his bitter enemy and master, Hassanali Fakhru, stood in the doorway and spoke.
I was humiliated, and dealing with the endless taunts from my classmates led me to overeat.
Usually the object of the exercise is to shock, disgust or humiliate the unwilling audience, rather than injure.
This raid shows the U.S. has not learned the lessons of Abu Ghraib, and is still trying to "humiliate" perceived opponents. Hullabaloo
Doing so is justifiable cause for being mocked, teased, and otherwise humiliated.
In a striking letter to The Times of 22 February 1855 he called upon the government to resist the humbug of public opinion and pull back from its over-proud and un-Christian attempt to humiliate Russia.
The last time I had it, a woman reporter was humiliated and verbally abused in a National Football League locker room.
He was often humiliated by the rascals in his town.
The scene in the video where Warman is sitting around with some street urchins, gleefully plotting to "humiliate" Icke told me all I needed to know: Warman wasn't about human rights, or elevating society, or the best of the human spirit. Who's afraid of Richard Warman? - Ezra Levant
The party was humiliated in the recent elections.
To feel humiliated and degraded is not what you signed up for.
In an effort to dampen down suggestions that Straw had been utterly humiliated, his closest allies insisted yesterday that he had been making it known for some time that he was ready for a switch from the Foreign Office.
Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual. London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
Meanwhile, the Bruins have to live with veteran superstars who have just been humiliated by a rookie coach.
I am slowly but surely gathering a dossier of photographs that I could use against Travis, I say 'use against', but I actually mean 'humiliate'. ;- in event of him ever obtaining high office. The Trav Randall Caption Competition
He wasn't about to let Saki humiliate him by first ruining his computer and then creaming him.
Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and while wheeling a "frightened and humiliated" Dougherty out of the store, he passed out.
Nearby, about 50 Mubarak supporters in a counterdemonstration cried out, "Why humiliate the president who protected us? Fighting breaks out as Mubarak trial resumes
This proud, but humiliated, most complicated of politicians was not averse to flattery.
He humiliates Billy by making him beg for time off work.
It is predicated on sustaining a racist state-organization into the future, forever surrounded by those it has dispossessed and humiliated.
These protests have been about salving the consciences of many whose votes splintered the left and humiliated Prime Minister Lionel Jospin's candidacy.
He was heartbroken and humiliated by our war on Mexico, which had never attacked us.
This proud, but humiliated, most complicated of politicians was not averse to flattery.
She passes a small bakeshop, and hungers over only a small roll to eat, but cannot bear to bring herself to the level of begging for food from the woman inside; she is too humiliated.
If I followed all of this, we would both be very embarrassed, me, humiliated for outreaching my position, and you, for associating with one of lower status.
As punishment, the branks was locked about the women's heads to humiliate them and teach them their place.
The phonetic graffiti on my car is probably intended to humiliate me. DO NO HARM
humiliated that his wife had to go out to work
Only last week a young man was sentenced to a year in jail for being part of a 30-strong gang that humiliated and assaulted a man with Parkinson's disease whose only provocation to them had been to walk with a strange gait.
He felt shamed and humiliated by the treatment he had received.
How can you expect people to speak out if you publicly humiliate them?
They humiliated Brian, subjecting him to a torrent of physical and emotional abuse.
How could you humiliate me by questioning my judgment in front of everyone like that?
They humiliated Brian, subjecting him to a torrent of physical and emotional abuse.
She blubbered, completely unable to stop herself and completely humiliated that she was crying like a madwoman in front of Jordan!
They feel humiliated and degraded, says an irked senior commander.
A legal secretary decided to use e-mail as a weapon to publicly humiliate her boss, who had asked her for £4 to dry-clean trousers on which she had accidentally spilled some tomato sauce.
If only Australia did have a warring half dozen papers, each out to humiliate and bankrupt the other, how much better served we would be.
The press has the power to stimulate, alarm, enrage, amuse, humiliate, annoy.
I will tell you unhesitatingly of such 'corrigenda' ” nay, I will again say, do not humiliate me ” do not again, ” by calling me 'kind' in that way. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
I walk from the pitch as humiliated as I am chastened.
Besides, Dad will arrive, humiliate me in front of everyone there, and drag me home again.
Why hang around just to see him humiliate himself in front of the whole village?
She was jealous, humiliated, and emotionally at the end of her tether.
Sadly the drugs rapidly tired her out and she slumped back in humiliated defeat, a toy for his pleasure.
She efficiently humiliates the girls, initiating a reign of abuse which gradually erodes their characters.
She had never before been so humiliated, and the virulence of the café owner's anger had appalled her. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
She had been beaten and humiliated by her husband.
This tactic has been used by Israel's so-called friends in prievious wars launched against her in order not to "humiliate" the Arabs and compromise their "honour". On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
You led in the song, we tagged behind you and sang the refrain, “a thief is a cheat”, as we humiliated them round the entire Ubaha. Chidozie chukwubuike | the decoration « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Look at the way they humiliate people going about their jobs, including women.
When England, cock-a-hoop after their success in the 2005 Ashes, went to Australia for the rematch and were ritually humiliated to the tune of a whitewash, the response of the England and Wales Cricket Board was to commission the Schofield Report, the essence of which recommended root-and-branch restructuring of the way England approached touring, preparation, selection, fitness, the lot. India's board counts the cost of complacency as status dwindles | Mike Selvey
The honour of being humiliated at an excruciatingly early stage is not yet ours.
I was harshly reprimanded and humiliated in front of everyone.
On one hand, he resented his courtroom tirades, which were often personal and designed to humiliate.
I know, 'cried Eugénie de Netteville at last, standing at bay before him, her hands locked before her, her white lips quivering, when her cup of shame was full, and her one impulse left was to strike the man who had humiliated her --' I know that you and your puritanical wife are miserable -- _miserable_. Robert Elsmere
His show - in which celebrities were humiliated by Blobby or doused in gunge - was a Saturday night staple until it was given the push in 1999 when viewers began to desert.
But then the bullying lout whom he outwits and humiliates is a German, so that's all right. The Case of the Missing Adventure Story
But his methods are so boneheaded and his argument so incoherent, it's impossible to tell what he wants to do besides humiliate his actors, insult lesbians and drive his defenders into a state of apoplexy.
It seemed -the least he could do - to deny himself the dramatic gesture, to humiliate himself.
Their first scene is, on the surface, a model of civilised restraint, but in their last scene she goads and humiliates him to the point where he explodes into sudden - and lethal - violence.
She just wants me to humiliate myself by repulsing Charlie.
Women were humiliated and brutalised as part of a campaign to demean their ethnicity.
She had never before been so humiliated, and the virulence of the café owner's anger had appalled her. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
We feel quite humiliated on our lonely ferry-boat as these leviathans of nautical architecture sweep past us with an imperious curve far out into the stream, and then move steadily and statelily down the middle of the river, like an "ugly duckling" of mammoth proportions. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
Take a quick browse through the harmless fun of top-shelf material at most newsagents, garages and grocery shops and you will find row after row of hate titles that degrade and humiliate women.
You are one win away from the play-offs and you get blown out, destroyed, shellacked, embarrassed, humiliated and ELIMINATED by the Pistons?
I misunderstood what Andy was saying, but in responding to what I accused you of (which I thought, perhaps unfairly, your words were suggesting), I notice you didn’t deny it, i.e., that seeing your country beaten and humiliated is your desire. Guardian column: Secrets « BuzzMachine
The phonetic graffiti on my car is probably intended to humiliate me. DO NO HARM
He certainly wouldn't stand for being publicly humiliated like that.
Parents are humiliated if their children behave badly when guests are present.
Sure, workplace ribaldry or unwanted sexual advances directed at women may sometimes be motivated by a desire to put women ‘in their place’ - to humiliate them, terrorize them, even force them to quit.
The phonetic graffiti on my car is probably intended to humiliate me. DO NO HARM
The idea of purdah was acquired from Persian and Byzantine societies, which secluded women out of deference and honor, not in order to humiliate them.
But that didn't give him any right to scream at me and humiliate me in front of my own friends.
After the merger of her company, Anna, a divorced mother, finds herself suddenly removed from her old position and shunted about, even humiliated.
How could I humiliate myself like that?
However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
The most revengeful way to humiliate a family against whom disputes are pending is to subject the womenfolk in that family to crimes that rob them of their honour and dignity and bring them disrepute.
I was blacklisted, pushed out, everybody who talked to me was humiliated.
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate.
The state was humiliated in the 1860s by a spectacular revival of bushranging, when bushrangers for the first time became national heroes, their exploits carried by telegraph and newspaper Australia-wide.
The most revengeful way to humiliate a family against whom disputes are pending is to subject the womenfolk in that family to crimes that rob them of their honour and dignity and bring them disrepute.
This all reminds me much of clients who come to me begging to serve me, to make them utterly obedient, to humiliate and degrade and objectify them - just as they have imagined it in their fantasies, to the note.
So what on earth was such a woman, a masterful, strident, self-possessed and sharp-edged woman, doing to herself with a man who repeatedly betrayed and humiliated her? And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
For all the bullied children with Downs, for all the sexually twisted, for all the humiliated and poor; we're all invited to the big fiest! The Hoh Rainforest and The Question
She had never before been so humiliated, and the virulence of the café owner's anger had appalled her. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
For a few seconds the local potentate demurred; but when the Chief Justice poured upon him a cataract of blasphemy, and vowed to hang him instantly over the entrance to the tolsey unless he complied immediately, the humiliated chief magistrate of the ancient borough took his place at the felon's bar, and received such a rating as no thief, murderer or rebel had ever heard from George Jeffrey's abusive mouth. A Book About Lawyers
She was glad now that her History teacher humiliated her by taking that letter and reading it aloud to the class.
The freeze still had eight hours to run, but in a small settlement outside the shinbone-in-the-throat settler city of Ariel, it was time to humiliate the president of the United States. Bradley Burston: Confessions of an Israeli Anti-Settler Bigot
Elliania has no way to know that you did not deliberately humiliate her. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
On one hand, you see young girls like Neda, who 14 -- for 30 years, they would go into the streets, they're beaten, they're taken into jail, they're humiliated for what I call the weapons of their mass destruction, which is their makeup or their hair showing. CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2009
Quite scandalously, the Minister, Danny Ayalon thought it acceptable to humiliate the Israel on Tuesday over what it called the discourteous treatment of its ambassador, further souring ties between the two ... ambassador, a government statement said, an attempt to defuse the latest crisis ambassador when he was publicly dressed down, Israeli ... WN.com - Articles related to Turkey and Kingdom call on Israel to halt settlements
The phonetic graffiti on my car is probably intended to humiliate me. DO NO HARM
A mean-spirited jokester, Joe constantly concocts plans to humiliate Charlie.
* -- I think, after such a scene, an addresser must feel a little humiliated, and would return without finding his pride greatly increased by his mission. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
I do not wish that my confidential life be publically revealed and that I would be publically humiliated simply because I am requesting an exclaustration. Clerical Whispers
I was completely humiliated in front of people who had no right to do so.
I don't watch reality shows either ... like Pari ... watching someone being humiliated is not my idea of entertainment. GET REAL
The other heavyweights know that they probably won't be hurt or knocked out by him, just humiliated.
Indeed, they were intended to insult and humiliate with reference to such an abject condition.
He said he was really sorry for doing this to me, that he felt humiliated. THE EXECUTION
I have no desire to anger anyone, frustrate anyone or humiliate anyone.
Do they derive some form of sick pleasure from seeing a stranger humiliate their child/friends on public television?
The intelligence agencies, humiliated by their failure to forestall the attacks, are desperate to prove themselves.
Leah is publicly humiliated and runs away from the chuppah in tears.
When he does manage to express himself, his gaggle of interfering sisters humiliate him for the effort.
Ferocious winds howled and heavy rain drove through the Jade Stadium as the Lions were humiliated - beaten in all areas.
There was just no way was I letting this chick humiliate me in front of my own fans.
Although his classmates neither humiliated him nor embraced Nazi racialism, he writes, they ‘looked the other way’ when persecution began.
He was publicly flogged and humiliated.
I had been assaulted and deeply humiliated in front of all my friends.
The footballer's 28-year-old wife, Toni, was described as inconsolable and "humiliated" by her husband's alleged antics. Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news
Through their bracing and often witty interplay -- the American has the checkbook and the weapons, plus a pop culture that enthralls and blinds; the humiliated, acerbic Brit "facilitates"; the Russian waxes Dostoevskian -- we can understand why historically Afghanistan has proved "the graveyard of empires. Carla Seaquist: Why Can't Art Be Instructive?
You'll stay and endure his insults because maybe being insulted and publicly humiliated is bad - but it would be even worse to walk away letting him win. My God, He's On To Me
One always hopes to be dignified, but when you are undeservedly humiliated, mere human nature leans towards lashing out. Times, Sunday Times
When her father - who did not accept Shiva, ever - publicly humiliated her beloved at the ritual, Sati immolated herself in the sacrificial fire, desecrating it.
Patients were often publicly humiliated by loud enquiries about their bowel motions.
I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.
Some had relatives killed or humiliated and are pursuing a clan vendetta.
L'Affaire Biden - when the vice president was mousetrapped and humiliated when Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new housing units for Jews in East Jerusalem shortly after he arrived in Israel to reaffirm U.S. solidarity with Israel - was dismissed as a mere "spat" by the neoconservative WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
In his case, several of the actor's accusers claim to have been humiliated and degraded by him at work.
Carl is insulted, humiliated and ignored on a regular basis and yet keeps coming back for more.
I had never received one single complaint against me," claimed the humiliated doctor.
Humiliated, the girl's mother marries her off to a prince and he goes on a bender.
A Croatian bank robber was so humiliated that he ran away after a bank clerk just laughed at him when he tried to rob them.
She had heard of the most appalling things-kidnapped bride, imprisoned and humiliated bridegroom, Halloween destructions and practical jokes.
When an inimically divorced couple meets up again at the formal wedding of their somewhat humiliated daughter, their animosity is rekindled on sight.
As a young man, he made his name not in student politics but in wrestling, and now he uses words and more words to annihilate and humiliate his opponents.
Scotland's Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who will welcome Benedict when he arrives in Edinburgh on Thursday (Sept. 16), recently voiced bitterness over press coverage when he accused the government-funded British Broadcasting Company of attempting to "humiliate" Benedict. Pope Benedict To Encounter Hostile Audience In U.K. Visit
The most common criticism is that they are snobs who criticise ordinary members of the public about their clothes and humiliate them on television.
The TSA humiliated a former bladder cancer patient for the second time earlier this month when an agent dislodged his urostomy bag, soaking him in... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
His offended love, and Malvolio's humiliated suffering, are reminders of the harm done by mistake, mischance, drink, thoughtlessness and unkindness.
My wife does feel … humiliated is way too strong a word …. but there is an element of degradation. Think Progress » Ohio Right Wing Spreads Minimum Wage Jobs Myth
The rogue manager, shockingly, defended his actions, suggesting that the servers were "prima donnas" who needed to be humbled, which is to say humiliated, to make them more pliant employees. Forbes.com: News
Feeling slightly humiliated, Anna folded her arms, sat back in her chair and pouted, making no effort to disguise her anger toward his put-down.
Still, she did not want to humiliate her friend and, once it was over, she rather hoped it would never be like that again.
Jefferson felt keenly the situation, and at the expiration of his term retired to Monticello, humiliated and overwhelmed by unjust criticism and undeserved censure. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
Perhaps you feel humiliated, cross, or resentful but you keep quiet, or you behave sensitively.
With phenomenal cruelty, the tabloids both build up the young and lovely, and ritually humiliate them at the first sign of crepey thighs or sagging breasts. Great Regulars: Gerontophobia is a pandemic in the media.
How could you humiliate me by questioning my judgment in front of everyone like that?
He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
Turns out the best way to get fatties, drunks and tar-breaths to improve their lifestyle is to get them on television and humiliate them.
When you're a superstar performer and you've mainly humiliated yourself (and your family) and haven't done anything to directly betray or cheat your adoring fans, all you have to do is let time pass to allow your ADD followers to "rubberneck" some other star's or celebrity's personal train wreck, then come back and perform superbly and not only will you be forgiven, you may be re-anointed as a hero. Just Listen -- "All Is Forgiven Tiger"

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