humiliating

Etymology

adj

1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
   The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest

verb

1. present participle and gerund of humiliate

noun

1. An act of humiliation.
   We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […] 2013, Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction (page 76)