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‖ mauvaise honte|mɔvɛz ɔ̃t|
[Fr., lit. = ‘ill shame’.]
False shame; painful diffidence.
1721Lady M. W. Montagu Lett., to C'tess Mar (1887) I. 325 Nothing hindered me but a certain mauvaise honte which you are reasonable enough to forgive. 1825Bentham Ration. Rew. 86 A kind of littleness and mauvaise honte, which avoids, with timid caution, everything that is bold, striking, and eccentric. 1877L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine xvii, The mauvaise honte and artificial cynicism so constantly to be observed in the Anglo-Saxon. |