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humiliating

«I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.»
«Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.»
«We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.»
«Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at»
«I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.»
«Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?»
«The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.»
«The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality»