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Meanings of shameful secret in English

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Usage of shameful secret in English
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COSMETIC surgery is no longer the sneaky, shameful secret it once was.
News.com.au
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Cunegonda is in possession of a shameful secret in the maid's past life.
The Law and the Lady
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She had been tactful and understanding and kept his shameful secret.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
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He felt that the clerk must surely scent his shameful secret.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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How could he be sure that it did not imply some shameful secret?
The Town Traveller
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This is partly why so many victims take their shameful secret to their graves.
The Guardian
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And then the newspapers disclosed the shameful secret California's brilliant Senator was a drunkard.
California Sketches, New Series
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Hourly she felt more and more the weight that a shameful secret is to carry.
The Man
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And there is no escape, no hope unless we drag the shameful secret from him.
The Crimson Blind
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It was a shameful secret, never even referred to.
Hilda Lessways
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Would she not read on his troubled face the shameful secret of the drama within?
The Grip of Desire: The Story of a Parish-Priest
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While I had to hide my love from her, it was a terrible, shameful secret.
Another life altogether: a novel
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What is this shameful secret to which you refer?
The Moon Rock
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Anne's brothers might know, but they were hardly likely to let their sister's shameful secret out.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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Concealed at the center of the house, it was a shameful secret too important to erase.
The hellfire club
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The shameful secret of my early love broke from me when in your rage, you threatened him.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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