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UK
/hjuːmˈɪlɪˌeɪtɪd/
]
[ US /hjuˈmɪɫiˌeɪtɪd/ ]
[ US /hjuˈmɪɫiˌeɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
humiliated that his wife had to go out to work
felt mortified by the comparison with her sister
too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street -
subdued or brought low in condition or status
his broken spirit
a broken man
brought low
How To Use humiliated 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.
- 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.
- Bucks redeemed themselves against opponents who humiliated them 5-1 in a Rothmans Cup clash earlier in the season.
- 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.
- I want those horrible soldiers who were responsible for this to be publicly punished and humiliated.
- 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
- 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
