Synonyms:
demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying
Meaning: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
Usage examples
I sat down to a humiliating half-hour's thought.
A return in the afternoon is ignominious and humiliating.
'It's a humiliating exhibition,' he thought, 'and I'm glad Torp isn't here to see.
If that's mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me.
Sheila turned softly round, conscious in a most humiliating manner that she had ever so little flushed.
Brodie's diary is one of the most humiliating, heart-searching, and heart-instructing books I ever read.
The essential cheapness of the whole affair--as far as his share in it was concerned--came home to him with humiliating distinctness.
On the other hand, he was more than once that night overcome by a sort of inexplicable humiliating terror, which he felt positively paralyzed his physical powers.
Happily he had the candor to admit this humiliating fact to himself, and he put forth earnest and steadfast exertions to bring himself up to the level of modern times.
Upon these occasions there was something inconceivably, savagely terrible in his anger, that gave to the person against whom it was directed the most humiliating and insupportable sensations.