self-denying
Example Sentences
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The point is that you can’t predict what the net effect of an individual self-denying ordinance would be.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2020
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
The self-denying earnestness of Washington style—the cobalt blue ladies’ suits, the baggy menswear—has lost all resonance.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2015
She was an excellent wife and mother, a good friend, and a sincere Christian; indeed, I do not believe that a more earnest, self-denying, better woman ever lived in this world.
From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence
