But painful humiliation can be a matter of accumulated small slights and slippages as much as dramatic exclusion from the social body.

She shook her head in painful humiliation.

Melina could have borne that, but what made the humiliation so painful was the pleasure he took in publicly flaunting his liaisons.

She raised her head, her eyes horrified as awareness speared her like a poison-dipped arrow, replacing excitement with waves of painful humiliation.

Passers-by were appalled, but I felt what had to be the painful humiliation of someone who had no ability to control this seemingly antisocial behavior.

For instance, I was well past 30 when I was reading an advertisement aloud: "Do you suffer the painful humiliation of psoriasis?"

And some very painful humiliation; but Meriamon did not say that.

So the choice was between painful humiliation and death.

If Grimm's intentions went awry it would be a painful, public humiliation for Zeke, and one he'd not live down for a long time.

But it would also be a painful and public humiliation for Laura.