self-denying

Example Sentences

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But he’s not by nature the self-denying type: as soon as the movie wrapped, he spent three days on a couch eating mozzarella and bone marrow and drinking wine.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2018

Keleş, who has since left the movement, said that while Gülen presented himself as a humble, self-denying cleric, in private he was entirely different: vain, megalomaniacal, demanding total obedience.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

But Judge Lindsey marveled at the “strenuous, strict, and self-denying conventions of the strange Flapper-Flipper world she lived in.”

From Time • May 18, 2016

The self-denying earnestness of Washington style—the cobalt blue ladies’ suits, the baggy menswear—has lost all resonance.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2015

For what qualities on the part of the poor are so valuable, in a social point of view, as industry, self-denying diligence, systematic, unwearying devotion even to work which brings them such scanty remuneration?

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden