(n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
(n.) The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(3) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(4) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(5) In a recent article , Martin Jacques comments on how New Labour, which built its fortunes on "there being no alternative", is now being forced into the humiliating circumstances of having to find one.
(6) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
(7) Sarkozy, 59, had been tipped to win the leadership vote and indeed gained a clear majority, which avoided the humiliation of a second round of polling.
(8) What hard work that must be, especially if the humiliation is so public!
(9) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(10) There was no repeat of last season's humiliation but it told of another Liverpool exertion against Oldham Athletic that Brendan Rodgers took pride only in a competitive Anfield appearance for his son, Anton.
(11) It became clear, as Bourguiba went on, that he had two objectives in mind: to deflate and mildly humiliate the young Nasserist Libyan, and to outline his vision of the Arab world.
(12) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(13) She isn't sure – though, like Freud, she defines her anxiety as a threat that is objectless, and located in the future – such as ruination or humiliation (unlike fear, which is a response to a specific and immediate threat to one's safety).
(14) "The more of us who stand up, the less we can be humiliated.
(15) This kind of humiliation is already felt by many in this country.
(16) Detainees have seen their time allowed outside cells slashed, and been forced to undergo humiliating body cavity searches if they want to speak to lawyers, it has been claimed.
(17) What promised to be a day of utter humiliation had turned into yet another day of glory.
(18) The tribunal said the conduct had "the effect of violating the claimant's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment".
(19) Brown made mincemeat of a succession of shadow chancellors, taunting them with the contrast between the strong growth and healthy public finances under Labour and the humiliation visited upon John Major's government on Black Wednesday.
(20) A later speaker, Salah el-Ghazal, referred to Gaddafi's "humiliating" death, saying: "This is the humiliating end that God wanted to set as example for anyone who practices the worst forms of injustice … against their people," he said.
Insulted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Insult
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(2) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(3) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(4) Combined with histological analysis, these results suggest a more rapid recovery of normal spermatogenesis after physical insult with LAC treatment.
(5) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(6) Among the various physiological factors involved in the development of a nephrotoxic insult, certain renal transport systems may be important.
(7) In addition, PROM is the result of direct bacterial insults or host-mediated autodestruction in response to bacterial presence or challenge.
(8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(9) This toxic effect, although not seen in intact nigrostriatal systems, may indicate L-dopa toxicity on transplanted DA cells, or on DA cells maximally activated to recover from insult.
(10) Under the conditions employed in these studies, repeated occlusions give rise to progressively more prolonged deficits in brain protein synthesis activity, which may thus provide a useful index of the severity of the accumulated ischemic insult.
(11) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
(12) We also observed a difference in the pattern and severity of alterations between repeated ischemic insults and single ischemia.
(13) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
(14) These findings suggest that NB-818 may be useful for clinical treatment of neurological deficit after an ischemic insult.
(15) For example, patients suffering from transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) experience onset of insult within 6 hours of a transfusion and have the presence of leukoagglutinins in their serum.
(16) This review article discusses the clinical manifestations and the diagnostic workup of insults to the kidney in patients with cancer.
(17) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
(18) It is hypothesized that transmission failure of interneuronal systems in the initial period following insult may be a general response occurring in wide areas of the central nervous system, and not restricted to areas to which mechanical stress is directly applied.
(19) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
(20) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.