"mauvaise honte" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "The practice, from whatever it may arise, is very embarrassing to the mauvaise honte of an Englishman: this may easily be surmounted, when it is perceived that the first visit is always considered as a polite attention."
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          "text": "Nothing but strong excitement and a great occasion overcomes a certain reserve and mauvaise honte which I have in public speaking; not a mauvaise honte which in the least confuses me or makes me hesitate for a word, but which keeps me from putting any fervour into my tone or my action."
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          "ref": "1875 April, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Photography, in Quarterly Review, #101 (April 1857), page 2",
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          "text": "Retenus par une mauvaise honte, ils n’osent pas se louer eux-mêmes, mais ils attirent ordinairement auprès d’eux quelque panégyriste doucereux, quelque poète hâbleur qui, pour de l’argent s’engage à les louer, c’est à dire à leur débiter des mensonges.",
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