abasement
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In a pathetic display of learned helplessness, California business leaders have collaborated in their own abasement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
She gave voice to her own humiliation and abasement, and in re-enacting that, you may feel a bit humiliated yourself, like a teenager slamming a bedroom door.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 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
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
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