humiliatingadj.
/hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ/ That humiliates; that lowers one's dignity or self-respect; abasing, mortifying.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adjective] > humiliating
dismounting1562
abasing1615
humiliating1757
humiliative1821
snubbish1840
humiliant1844
snubby1867
humiliatory1872
snubbing1887
lowering1899
deflating1933
1757 Herald I. ix. 147 To have demanded so humiliating a sacrifice of decorum.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iii. 415 Bankruptcy is perhaps the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. View more context for this quotation
1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1887) 320 The most humiliating of these events was the loss of Minorca.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) v. 127 A retreat..would have been..humiliating.
Derivatives
huˈmiliatingly adv. in a way that humiliates.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [adverb] > in a humiliating manner
humiliatingly1782
humblingly1837
snubbingly1860
1782 H. Elliot Let. in Lady Minto Mem. Hugh Elliot (1868) viii. 250 I was very humiliatingly treated.
1842 R. Anderson Regeneration 83 How humiliatingly and sharply it convicts and reproves!
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adj.1757