as in demeaning
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as in discrediting
to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes
the reigning tennis champ was humiliated on the court by a newcomer who defeated him in straight sets
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Recent Examples of humiliating
Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
Despite the brutal spear and the humiliating toss over the table, Speed is already looking ahead.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Dissatisfaction is now percolating even among the regime’s hardliner supporters, frustrated that Iran did so little to save Syria’s Assad from a humiliating flight to Moscow.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
Read: The price of humiliating Nicolás Maduro Legal challenges are probably coming, because no precedent has established the legality of terminating a preceding administration’s TPS extension.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Nura Abba, a teenager sent to Jos from Kano, remembers a particularly humiliating experience.
—Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
Despite the brutal spear and the humiliating toss over the table, Speed is already looking ahead.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Dissatisfaction is now percolating even among the regime’s hardliner supporters, frustrated that Iran did so little to save Syria’s Assad from a humiliating flight to Moscow.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 2 Feb. 2025
Read: The price of humiliating Nicolás Maduro Legal challenges are probably coming, because no precedent has established the legality of terminating a preceding administration’s TPS extension.
—Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humiliating
Adjective
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The principal accused him of disrupting his Middleborough Middle School and of demeaning LGBTQ students.—
Lauren Green,
Fox News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Her mother, a day laborer who had to leave school at age 10 to work, cleaned houses under the demeaning conditions of the Jim Crow era: Butler sometimes accompanied her mom on the job, where they were required to enter homes through back doors.—
Stephen Kearse,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Many of the conspiracy theories have prompted FEMA to create a page on its site discrediting rumors and false information about its response to Hurricane Helene.—
Nicole Sganga,
CBS News,
14 Oct. 2024
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Still, the United States didn’t recognize Haiti as a nation until 1862, during the Civil War, when American leadership was looking for any support in discrediting slavery.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The first was in a degrading context: Brown University’s annual Spring Weekend, in 2013.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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In the case of the white-telephone-cord purse, Curran sniffed out the presence of plasticizers that typically emerge from degrading PVC—a useful alarm bell for staff who may want to store the purse in a sealed container.—
Sarah Everts,
Scientific American,
1 Apr. 2016
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Travel shaming is on the rise, fueled by concerns about climate change and post-pandemic travel attitudes.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA TODAY,
27 Dec. 2024
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And make no mistake, travel shaming in the age of the internet is fun – at least for those doing the shaming.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA TODAY,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Humiliating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humiliating. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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