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humiliatingly
adverb
uk /hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.tɪŋ.li/ us /hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes someone feel ashamed or stupid:
Don't worry too much; there are always a million things that can go horribly, humiliatingly wrong.
The army was humiliatingly driven out, thus suffering its first defeat since 1956.
That final goal meant the scoreline read, humiliatingly, 0–8.
He was humiliatingly ejected from the White House.
The rescue operation humiliatingly failed when two helicopters crashed into the desert.
The team's appearance in the competition was humiliatingly brief.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
disgraced
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something
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