Synonyms:
humiliation
Meaning: state of disgrace or loss of self-respect
Synonyms:
chagrin, humiliation, mortification
Meaning: strong feelings of embarrassment
Usage examples
Conditions of unspeakable humiliation
And the pleasing feature of this arrangement is, that it is not attended with any sense of humiliation or loss of self-respect.
'I suppose,' began Danton, with an obvious effort to disentangle himself from the humiliation of the moment, 'I suppose he was--wandering?'
To me the convalescent would it now be suffering and torment to believe in such phantoms: suffering would it now be to me, and humiliation.
As I thought on what I had done, I felt a sense of humiliation which was almost punishment enough for the meanness of which I had been guilty.
They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace--perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
Lady Glencore's beauty and her vast fortune were now counts in the indictment against her, and many a jealous rival was not sorry at this hour of humiliation.
In solitude afterwards, thinking over that glance which had expressed his right to freedom, she came, as she always did, to the same point--the sense of her own humiliation.
To inspire esteem and consideration, is then the grand object of propriety of conduct; for without this treasure, the relations of society would be a humiliation and punishment.
I like to see an old aristocrat, swelling with pride of race, the descendant of illustrious Norman robbers, whose blood has been pure for centuries, and who looks down upon common Englishmen as a free American does on a nigger,--I like to see old Stiffneck obliged to bow down his head and swallow his infernal pride, and drink the cup of humiliation poured out by Pump and Aldgate's butler.