Lord Chesterfield says: "As for the mauvaise honte, I hope you are above it.
Perhaps this, too, was owing to his mauvaise honte, and also to an exaggerated consciousness of the deficiencies of his establishment as compared with what he imagined these lads were accustomed to at home.
At the first I warned the reader how improved from his old mauvaise honte a year or so of Paris life would make our beau Marquis.
I am not so mechante, so mauvaise tete as I was some months ago.
A sort of mauvaise honte and a guilty conscience combine to disable me from promptly introducing him to my people, and before I recover my presence of mind, Algy has walked on with Barbara, and I am left to follow with Frank.
Mauvaise honte--conceit and ignorance--all unite in the Lady you are to marry.
I obtained permission to serve the cheese, as a thing of mauvaise odeur, by itself, recalling only the salad, instead of making it a part of the dessert.
The practice, from whatever it may arise, is very embarrassing to the mauvaisehonte of an Englishman: this may easily be surmounted, when it is perceived that the first visit is always considered as a polite attention.
Veale’s case (511) never showedmauvaise volonté, and nothing more than aboulia.
He has had failures, however, even amongst men who have had no mauvaise volonté and have themselves desired to be sent back to the front.
And themauvaise volonté is by no means absent from some of our prospective patients; witness one man, a Frenchman, who so resented being cured by torpillage, i.
These phenomena were strikingly modified, at a single sitting, by verbal suggestion and faradism, but the man was one of those with mauvaise volonté.
Only because what we call modesty is awkward bashfulness and 'mauvaise honte'.
There are three principal causes that hinder them from acquiring this useful strength: pride, inattention, and 'mauvaise honte'.
For I have known many a young fellow seduced by a 'mauvaise honte', that made him ashamed to refuse.
This, and many other very disagreeable habits, are owing to mauvaise honte at their first setting out in the world.
Mauvaise honte' not only hinders young people from making, a great many friends, but makes them a great many enemies.
It was better, therefore, to be quiet, and to let her suppose that embarrassment, and English awkwardness and mauvaise honte, had occasioned my unaccountable manners.
Mauvaise tete, as the French say---always in trouble.
De Grammont tells me that a mauvaise tete like that must be shot sooner or later.
Lady Pelham seconded his intentions, by hints of her niece's engagement, and confidential complaints to her friends of the mauvaise honte which made Laura treat with such reserve the man to whom she had long been affianced.
I find Lord Thomond most excessively blamed in having neglected to make his will, so that he has died at last en mauvaise odeur with his White's friends.
All I do is so par maniere d'acquit, et de si mauvaise grace, that I am surprised at the civility with which I am treated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mauvaise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
