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humiliating
adjective as in mortifying
Example Sentences
We all have a constitutional right to free speech, but society also has moral codes against humiliating and degrading others.
“Suspending the pension reform would be a humiliating concession for Macron,” said Mujtaba Rahman, head of Europe for risk consulting firm Eurasia.
Begging to work is a humiliating, not to mention deeply unnatural, state.
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.
"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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