verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a humiliating defeat (= very embarrassing )
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They are still bitter about their humiliating defeat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
publicly
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In a choice between meekly obeying his commands and being publicly humiliated there really was no choice.
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He had been publicly humiliated by widespread accusations that supporters had rigged the results of the poll to secure him a seat.
so
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I've never been so humiliated in my entire life, and all because of you!
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Why do we have to be so humiliated by officialdom?
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Wasn't it enough that he had been so humiliated ?
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I have never been so humiliated in all my life.
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She had never, she said, been so humiliated in her life.
■ VERB
feel
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He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.
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Perhaps they wanted everything immediately, or perhaps they felt the need to humiliate Mr Gubbay.
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He felt humiliated and his anger grew.
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She felt stupid now, humiliated by her own behaviour.
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Then I felt embarrassed, humiliated .
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She mobilised all those who felt either humiliated by its paternalism or angry at its hypocrisy.
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He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lewis says her son was humiliated by his teacher in front of his fifth-grade class.
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The invading army took every opportunity to humiliate the local peasants.
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Why do you always have to humiliate me in front of your friends?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Grown men shouldn't humiliate themselves like this.
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She had heard of the most appalling things-kidnapped bride, imprisoned and humiliated bridegroom, Halloween destructions and practical jokes.
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They were strange men and women with peppermint breath and pictures of humiliated ancestors up on their walls.
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When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.
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Who wants to talk things over after being physically subdued and humiliated?