- a variation of self-sufficient.
self-sufficing
Example Sentences
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The vast majority of fathers feel dismally constrained, indeed, and out of countenance in the presence of their girls—so smart and sophisticated, so superior, critical and self-sufficing are our latter-day school and college-maidens.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
His failure to adjust the customs tariff to the new conditions of a population which was no longer self-sufficing increased distress and discontent with it.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
Had we been created self-sufficing or in such conditions as involved no necessity of toil, nothing would be as it now is.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
His military training and the self-sufficing determination which he had acquired in dealing with raw recruits had given him a knack of controlling his fellow-workers.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
Calm, cold, lonely, self-sufficing—and self-sufficing, too, because he must be so, because he had none other to whom to turn—that was his character, and viewing him in that manner I had always judged him.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
