humiliating

adj, noun — 2 senses

humiliating

adj

/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

1

Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.

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:

Derived terms: humiliatingly, nonhumiliating, unhumiliating

humiliating

noun

1

An 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:

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