12 Metaphors for humiliation

"My humiliation is a slight thing in comparison with the sacrifice I ask of you, Monsieur."

The humiliation to our nurses in placing them below the orderlies in the hospitals is not only a blow to their esprit de corps, but a definite handicap to their efficiency.

He was old and ill, and the humiliations which he had to endure are a painful story.

Hitherto humiliation and contempt had been his portion; and now, though he was deaf, he could enjoy the plaudits of the mobmob which he hated because he felt that it hated him.

He was better than the God the Wingfolds and Drakes believed in, with whom humiliation was a condition of acceptance!

To the Whigs the humiliation of Pitt was a more cherished object than the defeat of Napoleon.

Wrath died, scorn died; there was not enough to dry her tears at nighta deeper, more hopeless humiliation had become the shame of forgiving him, of loneliness without him, of waiting for his letter, heart sickhis letter that never came.

The people at large were allowed no share in their own earnings, beyond a subsistence so scanty that deep humiliation and grievous hardship were the fateful rewards of labor.

" Things had come to this crisis after years of arbitrary power, and the humiliation of England in its king being a pensioner of Louis XIV.

Wrath died, scorn died; there was not enough to dry her tears at nighta deeper, more hopeless humiliation had become the shame of forgiving him, of loneliness without him, of waiting for his letter, heart sickhis letter that never came.

" THE CROWNING HUMILIATION The Crowning Humiliation, or Before and After Seeing Foch, might be the appropriate title for the latest story now added to the pages of world history.

The utter humiliation of France was the result of events, in which the undying fame of England for inflexible perseverance and unbounded generosity was joined in the strictest union with that of Holland; and the impetuous valor of the worthy successor to the title of Prince of Orange was, on many occasions, particularly at Malplaquet, supported by the devotion and gallantry of the Dutch contingent in the allied armies.

12 Metaphors for  humiliation