humiliation

Example Sentences

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He’ll stick around through the series, offering barbed commentary and something like support: “If I humiliate you, it’s to save you from the bigger humiliation of remaining as you are.”

From Los Angeles Times

This leads, Mr. Hazzard writes, to “the constant gushing of fluids, all of them, into a diaper. It’s death by humiliation, by torment.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The plaintiffs said in their lawsuit that the posts and videos caused them “humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment and loss of reputation” and made it difficult to do their law enforcement work.

From Los Angeles Times

It functions as a loyalty oath, one ritual in a much larger pattern of humiliation and dominance.

From Salon

As a result of the alleged substandard embalming, family members say they were forced to witness the “grotesque and undignified condition of their loved one’s remains” and suffered humiliation, grief and horror.

From Los Angeles Times