| The costs of Mr Cameron's abasement in front of Rupert Murdoch surely far outweigh the benefits. |
| I beg that someone will recognise my abasement and meet my very human but mutually exclusive needs. |
| She allows us to examine our own appetites for public abasement without feeling guilty. |
| Mobbing is defined as behaviour which results in the violation of dignity, humiliation or abasement of an employee. |
| Throughout history a doffed hat has symbolized defeat, humility and abasement before one's betters. |
| White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. |
