sense of humiliation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandhumiliation
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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humiliation
noun[C or U]
uk/hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/us/hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of being ashamed or losing respect for yourself, or an occasion when you have ...
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(Definition ofsenseandhumiliationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They induce a duesenseofhumiliationthat one cannot know it all.
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They feel a sense of failure, asenseofhumiliationand a sense of defeat.
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I have felt thissenseofhumiliationdeeply this last few days.
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There can be few of us who, whatever our sense of relief, did not feel also asenseofhumiliationwhen we read those proposals.
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I rise with a three-foldsenseofhumiliation.
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I say that, arising out of thatsenseofhumiliation, we have represented by these fissures a volume of misery which is really appalling.
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We all know the crushingsenseofhumiliationfelt by a man who believes that he cannot give his family all that he would wish.
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In the result he has caused resentment, asenseofhumiliation, almost a sense of mass frustration.
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As a matter of fact, thesenseofhumiliationsince 1956 no doubt has been a factor in what has now happened.
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I am sure that many of those who as a result of these regulations will hand over their butter tokens will do so with asenseofhumiliation.
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Soblen have caused throughout the length and breadth of the country not only very great concern but a very deepsenseofhumiliationand shame at what has occurred.
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The failure left him with a deepsenseofhumiliation, and a determination to vindicate his genius.
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