for shame's sake

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English

Adverb

for shame's sake

  1. Owing to a sense of shame.
    • 1857, Charles James Lever, Tom Burke of "Ours", volume II:
      he laughed at our poor blown beasts, that shook on every limb, and seemed like to push their spare, gaunt bones through the trappings with which, for shame's sake, we endeavored to cover them.
  2. A mild oath

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