humiliating
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Adjective[edit]
humiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)
- Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- 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.
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Translations[edit]
liable to humiliate
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Verb[edit]
humiliating
- present participle and gerund of humiliate
Noun[edit]
humiliating (countable and uncountable, plural humiliatings)
- An act of humiliation.
- 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:
- 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 […]