Humiliations Synonyms and Antonyms

Strong feelings of embarrassment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mortifications
  2. shames
  3. obloquies
  4. disgraces
  5. ignominies
  6. chagrins
  7. dishonors
  8. discredits
Antonyms:
  1. elevations
  2. flatteries
  3. praises
  4. successes
  5. triumphs
A lowering in or deprivation of character or self-esteem
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mortifications
  2. degradations
  3. debasements

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Humiliations Sentence Examples

  • The main cause of the humiliations William suffered from parliament lay in his incapacity to understand the party or cabinet system.

  • But the precarious tenure of their possession had been deeply impressed on them by the disasters and humiliations they had undergone in these districts during the reign of Domitian.

  • Polygamy prevailed among the chiefs and rulers, and women were subject to all the humiliations of the tabu system, which subjected them to many privations, and kept them socially in a condition of inferiority to the other sex.

  • On these conditions Mary obtained the hearty support of the states Against France, but her humiliations were not yet at an end; two of her privy councillors, accused of traitorous intercourse with the enemy, were, despite her entreaties, seized, tried and beheaded (April 3).

  • Even then the new league would not fight and allowed Louis to retain his conquests by the truce of Regensburg (1685), but none the less these humiliations gave rise to a more closelyknit and aggressive coalition, which was organized in 1686 and known as the League of Augsburg.

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