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adj. - Subdued or brought low in condition or status.

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Usage examples (36)
  • One can hope for greatness always, and yet remain humbled by the challenge of greatness.
  • I am also an un-pubbed writer and, yeah humbled is the word I am feeling right about now in regards to my writing.
  • "We were stung and humbled, which is not a bad thing to be," Heintschel said of the Titans 'midseason woes.
  • Charlotte was a precept: — to take pleasure in seeing her humbled was a natural consequence which had not been guarded against.
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