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How to use humiliation in a sentence

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Humiliation means the act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification. Example: “It's tough to come back from a public humiliation.”

Examples of humiliation by meaning

nounThe act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

  • When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21

nounThe state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

  • It’s nothing to cry about!’ To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 48

More sentences with humiliation

  • It's tough to come back from a public humiliation.From the entry come back from
  • This will be the first of the humiliation rituals the game forces you to endure.2025 September 17, [deleted], “The writing was on the wall for the Ghost of Tsushima sequel”, in r/KotakuInAction. From the entry humiliation ritual
  • As a method of humiliation the witch was attached to a chain and paraded around in public.2024 June 4, Flavia Kate Peters, Barbara Meiklejohn-Free, 2025 Witch's Diary - Northern Hemisphere: Seasonal Planner to Reclaiming the…. From the entry witch's bridle
  • Many great series become abandonware or a humiliation ritual of soulless cash grabs.2023 August 30, anonymous author, 4chan, /vr/. From the entry humiliation ritual
  • Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened.2019, Ruth Kelly, The Little Vineyard in Provence. From the entry fear
  • A shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family.2011, Teddy Bart, Shadow Seduction, →ISBN, page 171. From the entry shanda
  • Barry sounded lighter, his spirits lifting slightly from the shell shocking humiliation and helplessness he'd been feeling.2010, John E. Shephard, Jr, Cottage Lake Soliloquy, page 10. From the entry shell shock
  • Was this vestigial bitterness from years of Aussie humiliations in his own career?2008, William Buckland, Pommies: England Cricket Through an Australian Lens, Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 15. From the entry Pommy-basher
  • At the end, I had managed to transform my humiliation into a triumph of smell-o-rama weaponry.2002 October, Reginald E. Zelnik, Robert Cohen, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, University of California…. From the entry smell-o-rama
  • Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5. From the entry suggestibility
  • To her humiliation Jessamy found there were tears trickling down her cheeks.1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, year_published edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry down
  • Talk with those here who vainly seek work, who suffer daily the humiliation of emptyhandedness.1939, Social Work Today - Volumes 7-8. From the entry emptyhandedness
  • These elections mark a personal humiliation for incumbent Ms.2017 June 9, Sotirios Zartaloudis, “Theresa May wins election, but ends up the biggest loser”, in The Globe and Mail. From the entry own goal
  • That would be the worst humiliation imaginable.2015, Sabrina Jeffries, If the Viscount Falls, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry cast up one's accounts
  • Twenty-first century nation states will no longer tolerate even the mild humiliation of hosting the detritus of 18th- and 19th-century empires.2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian. From the entry realpolitik
  • Nearly a decade on from its humiliation, Linfen is even trying to reinvent itself as a green city.[2012 October 25, Tom Phillips, “China’s Chernobyl Cleans Up Its Act”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2020. From the entry gu
  • It was more of a playful slap, but I needed you to see the humiliation in full bleeding color.2008, Daniel Allen Cox, Shuck, ReadHowYouWant, page 31. From the entry donkey-punch
  • Both the solar and lunar years, for example, represented a whole pattern of humiliation and exaltation, later "Mithraized."2006, Michael Patella, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark, pages 15- 16. From the entry Mithraize
  • Hunger, deprivation and humiliation were our constant companions, and only hope and our survival instinct kept us going.2003, Wendy Whitworth, Survival: Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Story, page 139. From the entry survival instinct
  • "I'm jest payin' yuh back for all the pain and humiliation I suffered in this den of iniquity—"1944, Robert Howard, Texas John Alden. From the entry den of iniquity
  • She cannot resist a sceneful of scathing remarks for one final humiliation of her husband before she leaves.1943, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews - Volume 4, page 308. From the entry sceneful
  • The call for azadi was semantically rich, able to incorporate within it a critique of different forms of patriarchal violence, control, humiliation and censorship.2021, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Sena Martins, The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity, Milton…. From the entry azadi
  • And I won’t have my health or self-esteem be compromised by even one more incident of retail profiling, public humiliation and character-assassination.2018 December 7, Shoshana Litvack, “This can’t be the price of security”, in Peace Arch News, volume 43, number 97, White Rock, B.C.…. From the entry character-assassination
  • But it’s not a full-scale humiliation.2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club. From the entry supporting actor
  • The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.2014, Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch, page 52. From the entry swarthy
  • A good start, a strong finish, but it was a Scotland horror show in the middle as the team flirted with Rugby World Cup humiliation.2011 September 10, Lewis Stuart, “Nervous Scotland secure victory”, in The Times, UK, retrieved 18 Jun 2015. From the entry horror show
  • This cut-throat competition traditionally climaxes on the afternoon of the second day with a ritual humiliation of the journalists charmingly known as the 'gang-bang'.2011, David Strahan, The Last Oil Shock. From the entry gang-bang
  • She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.2008, Gene Porter, A Daughter of the Land, volume 1, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry defeat
  • A foodie, domestic male is not a figure emasculated, but rather one of privilege, spared the humiliations and injurious defeats of machodom.2008, Ritch Calvin, Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity. From the entry machodom
  • The more he heard of fumbled passes, cidery kisses and snapped straps, the more he knew better than to risk such humiliation.2000, Michael Arditti, Easter, page 237. From the entry cidery
  • At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation.1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page xi. From the entry tell-all
  • At a "sneak preview," of course, the public is also on hand and can make their reactions felt much to the humiliation of the principals.1965 December 26, Peter Barthollywood, “On the Cuff in Darkest Bel-Air”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry sneak
  • Even the provincials knew his humiliation.1960, V. T. Calnan, The Blood of Gennaro, page 81. From the entry eggwoman
  • As far as I was concerned, and regardless of the man being my biological father, Melvin Harris was deservant of all the humiliation and punishment that came his way.2013, Lionel B. Harris, The Long and Winding Road, page 38. From the entry deservant
  • And feminization of the homeland is something to be rued, while the feminized humiliation of the enemy for the sake of the fatherland is cause for commendation and celebration.2009, David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race. From the entry rue
  • The fall and humiliation of Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella were carefully timed to curtain-raise what Bella intended as his biggest show, the "Second Bandung Conference."1965, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic, volume 153. From the entry curtain-raise
  • Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson.1964 May 29, The Colonnade. From the entry humongous
  • But he was free from any trace of the conventional masculine sniffishness toward the jilted woman; instead, he visualized, more vividly than ever, the bitter humiliation of Miriam's ordeal.1922, Harold Hunter Armstrong, For Richer, for Poorer, page 129. From the entry sniffishness

Meaning of humiliation

  1. noun The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
  2. noun The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

Full definition of humiliation

Questions about humiliation in a sentence

How do you use humiliation in a sentence?
Humiliation is used as a noun. For example: “It's tough to come back from a public humiliation.”
What is a short sentence with humiliation?
“But it’s not a full-scale humiliation.”
What does humiliation mean?
Humiliation means the act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

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