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

A wife devotes her existence to furthering her husband’s career, making countless self-denying sacrifices.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2014

And in common with many others of her sex and country, her heroism is of that patient, self-denying character which “passeth show.”

From The Irish Penny Journal, No. 1, Vol. 1, July 4, 1840 by Various