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Definition of Humiliating
1. Adjective. Causing awareness of your shortcomings. "Golf is a humbling game"
Definition of Humiliating
1. Adjective. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of humiliate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Humiliating
1. humiliate [v] - See also: humiliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humiliating
Literary usage of Humiliating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"humiliating Spectacle of New York.—" Ringing of a Little Bell. ... Now follows
the humiliating spectacle of the subjugation of the State government of New ..."
2. History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance by Woldemar von Seidlitz, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Annie Hamilton (1903)
"... humiliating RECEPTION IN ROME—H1s SUDDEN DEATH—LEWIS IN LOWER ITALY —CONCEPTION
OF THE IMPERIUM AT THIS TIME— LEWIS'S LETTER TO THE EMPEROR OF ..."
3. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"What the South had accomplished—Comparison of Material Strength between North
and South—humiliating Result to the Warlike Reputation of the North. ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"It is an humiliating proof of the degradation of Christendom, that the Venetians
were reduced to purchase the luxuries of Asia by supplying the ..."
5. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1880)
"... variable Moods — She attempts to deceive Walsingham — Her Injustice to Heneage —
His Perplexity and Distress — humiliating Position of Leicester — His ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1770)
"... is far from making us forgetful of, or unthankful for, the privileges we enjoy,
though under the humiliating idea of a ..."
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