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
The self-denying earnestness of Washington style—the cobalt blue ladies’ suits, the baggy menswear—has lost all resonance.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2015
That I don’t want to be defined by my relationship to my child, perpetually obligated to all-encompassing, self-denying nurture and devotion.
From Time • Jan. 20, 2014
Mr. Hagenauer came to Australia in 1858 as a Moravian missionary to the aborigines, and has been engaged in his self-denying labours ever since.
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard
