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Examples
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This isn't a justification of thoroughly shame-making behaviour, but I confess it hoping that I'm not alone.
Pain of watching sport that I will never die happy | Emma John 2011
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When Time and Life demanded an interview about 1984, Orwell refused to see them, condemning the "shame-making publicity" of the right-wing Republican press.
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I must say I'm rather gone on the shame-making Mr. Draper.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2010
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And it is as difficult, it seems to me, to conceive of a good shame-making machine as one that is efficiently laugh-making.
Limited, Inc. 2008
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He had visited it last Saturday and the pharmacist would remember such a recent purchase and, worse, make some comment such as “You’re really fond of these things, aren’t you?” or, most horrible and shame-making because almost true, “You must have your fix, mustn’t you?”
Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010
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