crying shame in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crying shames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "crying shame (plural crying shames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "disgrace",
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          "deplorable",
          "deplorable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable."
      ],
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    }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crying shame"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crying shames",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crying shame (plural crying shames)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "It's a crying shame that so much money has been wasted on this pointless political campaign."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "disgrace",
          "disgrace"
        ],
        [
          "deplorable",
          "deplorable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A situation that is considered to be a disgrace, or deplorable."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-crying shame.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/En-au-crying_shame.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crying shame"
}

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"crying shame" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms