humiliation
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The root cause of my humiliation was my own stupidity.
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- noun The act of humiliating; degradation.
- noun The state of being humiliated or disgraced; shame.
- noun A humiliating condition or circumstance.
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- I wanted less to please than to dominate her, and as it was only my head that was filled with her image, I wholly lacked the voluntary and cheerful self-humiliation which is an element of real love. — Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
- Turning toward the ladder, he looked back and beckoned. — The Dig
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The root cause of my humiliation was my own stupidity.
— Blanket of Ivory -
And in all of this, as the Red Cross report noted, the public nature of the humiliation is absolutely critical; thus the parading of naked bodies, the forced masturbation in front of female soldiers, the confrontation of one naked prisoner with one or more others, the forcing together of naked prisoners in "human pyramids."
— The Logic of Torture -
OLMERT (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I know that this pain and this humiliation are the deepest foundations which fomented the ethos of hatred toward us.
— CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007
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/ (hyo͞o-mĭlˌē-āˈshən)/
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