Self-sacrificing or austere.
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Examples for "hair-shirt "
Examples for "hair-shirt "
1 She kneels to say her prayers on the edge of that hair-shirt .
2 The art deco mob thought the modernists were all hair - shirt puritans.
3 More importantly, hair - shirt policies can only work if there is market pressure and political tolerance.
4 He relieved the priest, begging him to keep the secret of his wearing a hair-shirt .
5 If this all sounds a bit hair - shirt , it's not.
1 But alas, for the hair - shirted old dominie's backsliding disciples.
2 All other visions were absent in the hair-shirted , and self-scourgings brought out nothing but sexual idealities, sensual temptations.
3 This was a hard-headed, pragmatic speech which will not have gone down well with the more idealistic and hair - shirted fringe of green opinion.
4 Say goodbye to Stephen Hester and hello to Ross McEwan, a hair - shirted Kiwi crusader who doesn't want a bonus this year or next.
5 Here's a hair-shirted Palmer hard by;
6 'That hair - shirted puke is back in town!'
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