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Meanings of shameful thing in English

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Usage of shameful thing in English
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It would be a shameful thing to do unless father were willing.
The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance
2
Japanese people say it is a shameful thing to go to the Yoshiwara.
Kimono
3
That is the shameful thing about all our so-called temperance legislation.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
4
It made us all laugh, though it was a shameful thing to see.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
5
Surely this is a shameful thing for this city and people.
Stories From Livy
6
For famous men of old thought lying a most shameful thing.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
7
Of this shameful thing he said not a word to Corydon.
Love's Pilgrimage: A Novel
8
They will never breathe a word of whatever shameful thing his eyes saw.
Theft: A Play In Four Acts
9
It dwelt among them, a shameful thing, ignored yet ever present.
The Lamp in the Desert
10
He was not going to tell that shameful thing, even to these people.
The Wrong Twin
11
It was a horrible, shameful thing, if you will only think of it.
The Doctor's Dilemma
12
When her father was made redundant Shawcross' family felt it was a shameful thing.
Radio NZ
13
It was a somewhat shameful thing to have divorced parents.
All That Is
14
To be in hiding was for them a shameful thing.
Eve and David
15
Sleep is a shameful thing: I have not slept at all for weeks past.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
16
I could not bear that even you should think a shameful thing of him.
The Seeker
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