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humiliating

adjective as in mortifying

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We all have a constitutional right to free speech, but society also has moral codes against humiliating and degrading others.

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“Suspending the pension reform would be a humiliating concession for Macron,” said Mujtaba Rahman, head of Europe for risk consulting firm Eurasia.

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Begging to work is a humiliating, not to mention deeply unnatural, state.

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Nine Swiss nationals who returned to Geneva on Sunday also complained about what they called the "inhumane detention conditions and the humiliating and degrading treatment", Reuters news agency cited a statement as saying.

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"It's scary. It's humiliating when the freedom is taken away from you," he recalls.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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