Bullying Tactics

noun a feeling of shame or embarrassment

adjective humiliating (describing something that causes humiliation)

• The public humiliation of the accused was deemed unacceptable by the court.
• I felt a deep sense of humiliation when I tripped in front of everyone.
• She totally owned him in that debate, it was pure humiliation.
• Losing the game felt like a deep humiliation to the team.

noun a word that functions as the name of a specific person, place, thing, or idea

verb a word that expresses an action or a state of being

adjective a word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

adverb a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it)

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun (or pronoun) and other words in a sentence

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

article a word that is used with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun

• It is highly inappropriate to stick a thumb in someone’s eye during a disagreement.
• Dude, don't stick a thumb in someone’s eye like that!
• She really stuck a thumb in his eye with that comment.
• The new policy really stuck a thumb in the eye of long-time employees.