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Usage examples of "mauvaise".

Do not overlook the desire for spiritual advice and consolation which patients sometimes feel, and, with the frightful mauvaise honte peculiar to Protestantism, alone among all human beliefs, are ashamed to tell.

He is a person of good address,--to be sure, and quite free of the mauvaise honte, and he may have seen a good deal of service.

Barizel le coeur leger, plein de confiance, ne pensant plus aux mauvaises paroles de Mautravers.

I tippled and talked, for I was not troubled with mauvaise honte even at sixteen, and at eight o'clock I rose to take leave.

In this situation, candour, and an honest confession that I felt a mauvaise honte in disclosing my passion to my father, would undoubtedly have been my safest course.