humiliating
adjective
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Pronunciation: /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
adj
- 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.”
noun
- 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 […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of humiliate