abasement
Example Sentences
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A lesser songwriter would either paint the couple in a false glow of romance or wallow in the tawdry abasement.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019
This sense of national abasement, however, is often paired with a kind of “We’ll show them!” boosterism.
From The New Yorker • May 21, 2019
It plants a provocative idea — that abasement is the gateway to adulthood.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
Public atonement requires public abasement and for public abasement, you need television.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2016
Clyde’s fiendish mind has not stopped at so simple an abasement, however.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
