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adjective

as in embarrassed

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verb

past tense of humiliate
as in discredited
to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes the reigning tennis champ was humiliated on the court by a newcomer who defeated him in straight sets

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Recent Examples of humiliated
Adjective
The incident was captured on jail surveillance footage, and Jenkins added that Musto's actions made the inmate feel humiliated and embarrassed. — Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 13 July 2026
Verb
However, Rob Shuter is reporting that Meghan believes Kate purposefully humiliated her by recently taking Princess Charlotte on the London Underground. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2026 His daughter is humiliated, and the message could not be clearer. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 One of its proof points was supposed to be Maine, where Graham Platner humiliated the party establishment, then himself. — David Weigel, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026 But the Saudis, humiliated by their losses in Yemen, seem likely to lash out. — Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026 When she and the other part-time employees were told their positions were being eliminated, Valcarcel said she felt humiliated and disrespected. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026 On a cold night in November 2011, in a field outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, a gang of thugs stormed a Soviet scientific research institute, beat and humiliated the staff and burned the place to the ground. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 My husband was humiliated, he was degraded, and not able to defend himself. — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026 Fiorentina’s centenary was spoiled by another hefty loss as it was humiliated 3-0 at home by Frosinone. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humiliated
  1. embarrassed
  2. discredited
  3. discomfited
  4. shamed
  5. abashed
  6. humbled
  7. disconcerted
  8. disgraced
Adjective
  • One unanticipated effect of my public activism efforts is that people now feel embarrassed about using their smartphones in front of me.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The Bears nearly turned a blowout into a disaster, and the Giants somehow went from getting embarrassed to creating a quarterback controversy.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of embarrassed
Verb
  • Milli Vanilli won a Grammy, got all this attention and then got discredited and didn’t replace Barbra Streisand or Bruce Springsteen or Taylor Swift or the Eurythmics or The Rolling Stones.
    — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Scientists have thoroughly discredited such claims for decades.
    — Ashique KhudaBukhsh, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of discredited
Adjective
  • Despite these successes at work, Ron scans as a discomfited and undistinguished middle manager.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Thomas Jefferson was likewise discomfited by the revolutionary possibility of female citizenship.
    — Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of discomfited
Verb
  • Schools banned its use, and journalists were shamed for credulously repeating its hoaxes.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In that same 2023 Pew Research report, over half of non-Spanish-speaking Latinos reported being shamed for not knowing the language.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of shamed
Adjective
  • This journey culminated in the 2018 production at Glyndebourne, which accomplished the feat of finally reducing (most of) the London critics to abashed admiration.
    — Russell Platt, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • Privacy concerns cause abashed feeling in Silicon Valley Zuckerberg's potential retort comes after Apple's Cook made comments at the end of March in an interview with Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 11 Apr. 2018
Definition of abashed
Verb
  • McCartney admitted he is still humbled by the widespread interest in their lives.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The highfalutin Dodgers organization has surely been humbled by this.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of humbled
Adjective
  • The rapper pleaded not guilty after he was accused of charging at Los Angeles police officers while roaming the streets of Studio City in his underwear and a pair of cowboy boots in a disconcerted state.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Definition of disconcerted
Verb
  • But for audiences outside North America, catching Nathan Fielder’s three-hour documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes — now expected to be a major player in awards season — has become a frustrating waiting game.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim‘s documentary about disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes widens to 2,600 theaters domestically on Friday for its sophomore frame.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of disgraced

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“Humiliated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humiliated. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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