The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-abasing
Self-abasing \Self`-a*bas"ing\, a. Lowering or humbling one's self.
Wiktionary
self-abasing
a. humbling by the consciousness of guilt or by shame.
Usage examples of "self-abasing".
Had Marguerite offered a sufficiently self-abasing apology, I would have slashed her clothing allowance in half, restricted her public appearances to the two or three most crucial charity events of the year and perhaps as many dinners at my side in the restaurants where one is `seen,' and ensured that the resultant mood of sackcloth and ashes prohibited any reversion to bad behaviour by intermittent use of another investigator.