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humiliating, ppl. a.|hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ|
[f. humiliate v. + -ing1.]
That humiliates; that lowers one's dignity or self-respect; abasing, mortifying.
1757Herald I. ix. 147 To have demanded so humiliating a sacrifice of decorum. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. iii. (1869) I. 345 Bankruptcy is perhaps the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. 1834Macaulay Ess., Pitt (1887) 320 The most humiliating of these events was the loss of Minorca. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe v. (1894) 127 A retreat..would have been..humiliating.
Hence huˈmiliatingly adv., in a way that humiliates.
1782H. Elliot Let. in Life viii. (1868) 250, I was very humiliatingly treated. 1842R. Anderson Regeneration (1871) 99 How humiliatingly and sharply it convicts and reproves! |