self-denying
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The narrator of “The Dakota Winters,” the 23-year-old middle child, Anton Winter, is so decent and self-denying that we know from the beginning he won’t be the hero of his own life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
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
But I can tell you, Charles of Montsoreau, what you would do if you were the same generous, noble, kind-hearted, self-denying youth that was once under my charge.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
