humiliating

comparative more humiliating · superlative most humiliating

1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

   However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms.

   2026 July 15, “Cixi empress dowager of China”, in britannica.com

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   The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of humiliate

plural humiliatings

1. countableuncountableAn act of humiliation.

   We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]

   2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76