"mauvaise honte" meaning in French

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      "form": "mauvaises hontes",
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "By some kindness, or false modesty if you will, I don't have the force to refuse anything that is asked of me firmly.",
          "roman": "Par je ne sais quelle bonté, ou, si l’on veut, mauvaise honte, je n’ai pas la force de rien refuser de ce que l’on me demande avec opiniâtreté.",
          "text": "p. 1610, a. 1710, Paul Scarron, A Madame Celeste de Palaiseau, in Œuvres, volume I",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "But none of these ills was equal to the rigors\nThat false modesty exercises in the heart.",
          "ref": "1673, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Épîtres (Epistles), Épitre III",
          "roman": "Que la mauvaise honte exerça dans les cœurs.",
          "text": "Mais aucun de ces maux n’égala les rigueurs",
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        },
        {
          "english": "False modesty is the most dangerous vice, and the most urgent to cure.",
          "ref": "1687, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, chapter 9, in Éducation des filles",
          "text": "La mauvaise honte est le mal le plus dangereux et le plus pressé à guérir.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "It's not true honor, but a false modesty that holds me back.",
          "ref": "p. 1712, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Dialogues des morts ancien dial., published a. 1766, section 45",
          "text": "Ce n’est pas le vrai honneur, c’est une mauvaise honte qui me retient.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "He [Charles XII] had conserved, in the inflexibility of his personality, this timidity that we call false modesty.",
          "ref": "1731, Voltaire, Charles XII, section 8",
          "text": "Il [Charles XII] avait conservé, dans l’inflexibilité de son caractère, cette timidité qu’on nomme mauvaise honte.",
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        },
        {
          "english": "Restrained by a false modesty, they didn't dare praise themselves, but they ordinarily gathered around themselves some saccharine sycophant, some exaggerating poet who for money set about praising them, that is, peddling lies to them.",
          "ref": "1780, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Thibault de Laveaux, Éloge de la folie",
          "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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        "false modesty"
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        "feminine",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mo.vɛz ɔ̃t/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɔ.vɛz ɔ̃t/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mauvaise honte"
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      "form": "mauvaises hontes",
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        {
          "english": "By some kindness, or false modesty if you will, I don't have the force to refuse anything that is asked of me firmly.",
          "roman": "Par je ne sais quelle bonté, ou, si l’on veut, mauvaise honte, je n’ai pas la force de rien refuser de ce que l’on me demande avec opiniâtreté.",
          "text": "p. 1610, a. 1710, Paul Scarron, A Madame Celeste de Palaiseau, in Œuvres, volume I",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "But none of these ills was equal to the rigors\nThat false modesty exercises in the heart.",
          "ref": "1673, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Épîtres (Epistles), Épitre III",
          "roman": "Que la mauvaise honte exerça dans les cœurs.",
          "text": "Mais aucun de ces maux n’égala les rigueurs",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "False modesty is the most dangerous vice, and the most urgent to cure.",
          "ref": "1687, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, chapter 9, in Éducation des filles",
          "text": "La mauvaise honte est le mal le plus dangereux et le plus pressé à guérir.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "It's not true honor, but a false modesty that holds me back.",
          "ref": "p. 1712, François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Dialogues des morts ancien dial., published a. 1766, section 45",
          "text": "Ce n’est pas le vrai honneur, c’est une mauvaise honte qui me retient.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "He [Charles XII] had conserved, in the inflexibility of his personality, this timidity that we call false modesty.",
          "ref": "1731, Voltaire, Charles XII, section 8",
          "text": "Il [Charles XII] avait conservé, dans l’inflexibilité de son caractère, cette timidité qu’on nomme mauvaise honte.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Restrained by a false modesty, they didn't dare praise themselves, but they ordinarily gathered around themselves some saccharine sycophant, some exaggerating poet who for money set about praising them, that is, peddling lies to them.",
          "ref": "1780, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Thibault de Laveaux, Éloge de la folie",
          "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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        "uncountable",
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mo.vɛz ɔ̃t/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɔ.vɛz ɔ̃t/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mauvaise honte"
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