abasement

Example Sentences

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After reading “Girl on Girl,” I felt almost sticky with proxy humiliation, as Gilbert evokes example after example of female abasement in pop culture.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

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’s unpleasant to be confronted with the abasement of these men in the form of a photograph.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

They even join in the “Wal-Mart cheer” when required to do so at meetings, I’m told by the evening fitting room lady, though I am fortunate enough never to witness this final abasement.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich