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for shame's sake en · ADV

Meanings

1. Owing to a sense of shame.
   • 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. 1857, Charles James Lever, Tom Burke of "Ours", volume II:
2. A mild oath

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for shame

Synonyms

for goodness' sake (minced oath) · for pity's sake (minced oath) · for mercy's sake (minced oath) · for very shame's sake (due to shame) · for heaven's sake (minced oath)