Humiliating

Examples

• Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This is indeed too much: this is cruel, this is humiliating, were the words that fell from him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She thought it humiliating to see a man dressing: the ridiculous shirt, the ridiculous trousers and braces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I suppose, were all things ordered aright, they ought not to be in a position to need that humiliating relief; and this they feel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I should call such a scandal humiliating if there was the least chance of its being true. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Bankruptcy is, perhaps, the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• How humiliating is this discovery! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Don't you think it dreadfully humiliating? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Charlotte the wife of Mr. Collins was a most humiliating picture! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To be puffed by ignorance was not only humiliating, but perilous, and not more enviable than the reputation of the weather-prophet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To own to the partial truth of what he had heard would be distressing as long as the humiliating position resulting from the event was unimproved. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The first meetings went off with a certain humiliating clumsiness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is painful--it is even humiliating--but I am reduced at last to one slender theory: that the oysters climbed up there of their own accord. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What a humiliating victory! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In making that humiliating confession, I get the better of my fallen nature. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I think it makes one so ashamed, to be ill--illness is so terribly humiliating, don't you think? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Excuse me--for humiliating you, Aunt, by this mishap--I am sorry for it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The humiliating taunts of the disaffected member spoiled the supper, and we dispatched it in angry silence and got away as soon as we could. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A man of real abilities can scarce find out a more humiliating or a more unprofitable employment to turn them to. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Editor: Samantha