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humiliated

humiliated \humiliated\ adj. brought low in condition or status; reduced in dignity; humbled; mortified.

Syn: broken, crushed, humbled, low, mortified.

Wiktionary
humiliated
  1. deprived of dignity or self-respect v

  2. (en-past of: humiliate)

WordNet
humiliated
  1. adj. subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, low]

  2. made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister" [syn: embarrassed, mortified]

Usage examples of "humiliated".

That Maxil is shepherded, disgraced, shamed, humiliated by a bullying byblow, while Fernan is feted and cozened?

She'd been humiliated, stripped naked and roughly fondled, taunted with the prospect of rape, and yet they had stopped short of rape—for a reason.

She knew it humiliated Nick to be harangued in front of anyone, and this time there was absolutely nothing she could say in Nick's de fense.

She gave him a gentle push, and he sucked in a deep breath, obviously preparing himself to face a wife who had every right to be hurt, humiliated and angry.

Part of her was hurt and humiliated that he had come to her for sex, then left as soon as he was satisfied, but another part of her was glad that he had come to her at all, for any reason.

Furious, humiliated, but above all else lost again in that remembered horror, he left the bed and stamped into his own room, slamming the door behind him.

The more afraid and humiliated he felt, the harder he tried, and nothing happened.

That scum had hurt her, humiliated her, literally ground her into the dirt.

Because he had been so attracted to her that he hadn't been able to control it, some madman had attacked her, terrified and humiliated her, tried to rape her.

They had tied her down, stripped her, humiliated her, and she had been helpless to stop them.

When the briefcase had been jerked off her shoulder by a green-haired punk in Chicago last month, she had been both humiliated and furious.

She was painfully protective of Noelle, relating to her in a way that Gray never could, imagining that Noelle was humiliated and hurt by Guy’s affairs.

She was incensed on behalf of her childhood self, constantly humiliated by being treated like a thief, when all the while the man who had made such a production of following her around in the store had been part of the pack of hounds baying after her mother.

Once she would have backed down, humiliated to the core, but those days were long past.

She had simply been too shocked, first by the embarrassing discovery that he had shared the dreams with her and then by the way she had, humiliated herself in his arms.