27 adverbs to describe how to humiliating
King Cophetua, flouted by the beggar maid, could not have been more astonished, more deeply humiliated!
Pope, on the other hand, was a Papist by birth, and by a tie of honour; and he resisted all temptations to desert his afflicted faith, which temptations lay in bribes of great magnitude prospectively, and in persecutions for the present that were painfully humiliating.
She only knew that she had, in the few seconds of that cold greeting, been profoundly humiliated.
Philip secured for himself various advantages in the treaty; but he sacrificed the interests of England, by consenting to the retention of Calais by the French kinga cession deeply humiliating to the national pride of his allies; and, if general opinion be correct, a proximate cause of his consort's death.
Its value as far as the Hungarians were concerned was heightened by the fact that the ambitious Sultan was personally humiliated.
Oh, when I have looked back on that day, I have felt so painfully humiliated, I would gladly banish the recollection; but it is better for me to remember it, lest I should fancy myself better than I am.
" Now that the slaveholders have been so foolish as to appeal to physical force, abandoning their vantage-ground of political influence, they must be not only politically overthrown, but physically humiliated.
I puzzled myself over this matter longer, probably, than the intelligent reader will do: the explanation being obvious, like that of many puzzles that bewilder our minds intensely, only to humiliate us proportionately when the solution is founda solution as simple as that of Columbus's egg-riddle.
He meant to humiliate her publicly.
At first astonishment that she had not been named filled her to the exclusion of all other emotions, then she felt terribly humiliated, and then, as she began to think of the qualities she didn't possess she began to feel very humble.
Max dared not think of it; he was utterly humiliated!
It's so futileas well as being beastly humiliating.
It is decidedly humiliating to find ourselves in the toils of a siren the very reverse of our high ideal of the personage who is to have the honour and glory of subjugating us.
The horror of it made her forget that he had caught her in one of the most deplorably humiliating situations in which a young girl can be caughtdeliberately manufacturing smiles for her own amusement.
Subjection to an equal is doubly humiliating.
It was dreadfully humiliating and thoroughly disheartening, after all their earnest endeavor to investigate a crime that had never been committed.
The only remaining party to the Balkan Wars is Greece, and the situation of Greece, though not tragic like that of Servia, must be exceedingly humiliating to the Greek nation and to the whole Hellenic race.
Forced to do coolie labour, to dig latrines for native soldiers, incredibly humiliating, such was their lot!
It was probable, too, that Henshaw had recognized him and might be on the look-out; it would be intensely humiliating to be caught watching.
He would condescend to that for the sake, on a near day, of publicly humiliating a certain vainglorious jewellery dealer.
But although France had lost her freedom, it was only for a time; and although Louis Napoleon ruled as an absolute monarch, his despotism, sadly humiliating to people of intelligence and patriotism, was not like that of Russia, or even like that of Prussia and Austria.
She was disappointed; she was even resentful; assuredly she was humiliated.
Osborn had suspected Grace of holding dangerous modern views, but it was unthinkably humiliating that she had engaged in a flirtation with a farmer's son.
He's had the Door of Life slammed in his face, and I suppose he's pretty badly humiliated.
" "He could have slain us as we sat," I said, bitterly humiliated.