humiliating

• IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: hu‧mil‧i‧at‧ing

humiliating (comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating)

1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

• humiliatingly

humiliating

1. present participle and gerund of humiliate

humiliating (countable and uncountable, plural humiliatings)

1. An act of humiliation.
   • 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction, page 76:

     We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]