"for shame's sake" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1857, Charles James Lever, Tom Burke of \"Ours\", volume II:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Owing to a sense of shame."
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          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "sense": "due to shame",
          "word": "for very shame's sake"
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        "A mild oath"
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          "_dis1": "22 78",
          "sense": "minced oath",
          "word": "for goodness' sake"
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          "_dis1": "22 78",
          "sense": "minced oath",
          "word": "for mercy's sake"
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          "sense": "minced oath",
          "word": "for heaven's sake"
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      "word": "for very shame's sake"
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      "word": "for goodness' sake"
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      "sense": "minced oath",
      "word": "for mercy's sake"
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