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• v  cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
• s  causing awareness of your shortcomings

• It is humiliating that we still don't have enough medicine to treat our people.
• By 1894, however, China was sliding into chaos as the Manchu dynasty weakened and Japan defeated China in a brief and humiliating war.
• A Senator's humiliating fall has turned a bathroom stall into a tourist attraction, much to the consternation of airport officials.

• humiliate
• mortify
• chagrin
• humble
• abase
• demeaning
• humbling
• mortifying

News & Articles

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• Claims French police target minorities in court
  PARIS (AP) — Thirteen people who claim they have been targeted by French police for identity checks, often with humiliating public pat-downs, because they're black or of Arab descent went to court Wednesday to seek reparations and a change in police guidelines.
  July 3, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• In a first, French court to rule on claims police target minorities for ID checks, pat-downs
  PARIS — Thirteen people who claim they have been targeted by French police for identity checks, often with humiliating public pat-downs, because they're black or of Arab descent have gone to court to seek reparations and a change in police guidelines.
  July 3, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Claims French police target minorities in court - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  PARIS (AP) - Thirteen people who claim they have been targeted by French police for identity checks, often with humiliating public pat-downs, because they're black or of Arab descent have gone to court to seek reparations and a change in police guidelines.
  July 3, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in Independent
  It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the... Star Jones http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Jones&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHgW_Xidjz_qFo2ymP10LnB4q-1Lw USA Today http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-05-07-jones-walters_N.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF_S25CWrp9T9m-A8IyXvuKlaZT9w May 7, 2008 48708 65900 humiliating Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg said: This is a humiliating climbdown for Gordon Brown after he was forced to accept that people will not tolerate MPs continuing to act like members of a secret society. It is also a victory for everyone who...
• Jennifer Harris in SI.com
  In a December 2005 lawsuit, Harris accused Portland of "humiliating, berating and ostracizing" her, and claimed she was told that she needed to look "more feminine."