Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Scandalous: used only in the phrase black-burning shame.

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Examples

  • As oil and natural gas prices soar, the world is relying ever more on the cheap, black-burning mainstay of the Industrial Revolution.

    Archive 2007-10-01 GayandRight 2007

  • As oil and natural gas prices soar, the world is relying ever more on the cheap, black-burning mainstay of the Industrial Revolution.

    Coal use is growing in China... GayandRight 2007

  • Blue of the sky, and flowers, of birds 'wings, and the black-burning blue of the night!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Blue of the sky, and flowers, of birds 'wings, and the black-burning blue of the night!

    The Dark Flower John Galsworthy 1900

  • "I would think it was a black-burning disgrace for a minister to be fond o 'flowers."

    The Little Minister 1898

  • As was said, there is yet possible a deepest overturn than any yet witnessed: that deepest upturn of the black-burning sulphurous stratum whereon all rests and grows!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • I think black-burning shame of myself to make mention of such ploys and pliskies; but, after all, it is better to make a clean breast.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • I think black-burning shame of myself to make mention of such ploys and pliskies; but, after all, it is better to make a clean breast.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • ` Then faith the sooner I get away back from out of this black-burning country the better -- or my own mither down in Ballyshannon won't be after knowing her own beautiful boy again at all, and my father would be after disowning me, and my sisters and brothers to boot, and Father O'Roony would be declaring that it was a white Christian he made of me, and that I couldn't be the same anyhow.

    Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • "Oh, ye incarnate cannibal!" she bawled out, doubling her nieve, and shaking it in Reuben's face; "If ye have a conscience at a ', think black-burning shame o' yoursell!

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

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