[adj] causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
demeaning, humbling, mortifying, undignified
abusive, atrocious, awkward, backhand, backhanded, beneath one, calumnious, chastening, cheap, contumelious, crushing, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, disconcerting, disgraceful, disturbing, embarrassing, gutter, humbling, humiliative, infra d