Human-verified examples from authoritative sources
Exact Expressions
60 human-written examples
One features thousands of pasteable images, mainly of European leaders in humiliating photoshopped incidents or with captions pointing out their weakness and stupidity, or showing Putin making hilarious wisecracks and winning the day.
Her school community, her friends, her understanding teachers (certainly not the English teacher who was informed of her mental health issues and continued picking on her and humiliating her anyway, ultimately banishing her from class).
Others want to say sorry for humiliating their siblings in childhood.
In one incident, the radical politician Oleh Liashko was shown in footage that emerged last week humiliating captured insurgent and self-proclaimed defence minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic", Igor Kakidzyanov.
Activists say the legislation has emboldened rightwing groups who use social media to "ambush" gay people, luring them to meetings and then humiliating them on camera – sometimes pouring urine on them.
In that incident, Malik was the only person who stood with Kinghorn, who later described the experience as "humiliating".
A new law will allow émigrés to vote in presidential elections from outside the country; another permits Mexicans who become American citizens to retain some of the benefits of their old nationality, such as the right to own property.But this wooing of Mexico's forgotten sons in America began in earnest only after their plight was forced into public notice, humiliating the Mexican government.
His hasty mass-privatisation programme, which made ordinary Czechs the formal owners of most enterprises but gave control to state-owned banks with no interest in improving them, created a crisis that culminated in a humiliating devaluation of the currency in May last year.
By humiliating a leading bank, as Nouvel Observateur magazine put it, Jérôme Kerviel "has over the course of one weekend become a modern hero".
So the man who demanded the summit has now ended up in the dock, at that same summit (though the Czechs are aware that they must avoid, at all costs, humiliating him or France in public by making the March 1st meeting into a blame-game summit).Meanwhile, some time soon, we expect to see a text of the actual French car plan, after it has been vetted for compliance with Single Market rules.
She takes Cilla Black, ungainly with her long legs coltishly splayed and drinking from a paper cup, all wrapped up in her limbs, and it's not in the slightest degree humiliating , but lovable.
Show more... Source & Trust
89%
Authority and reliability
Real-world application tested
The adjective "humiliating " primarily functions to describe something that causes a feeling of shame or severe loss of self-respect. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's grammatically correct and widely used. The examples show its application in describing experiences, actions, or situations that result in this negative emotional state.
Expression frequency: Very common
