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self-abnegating

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  • adjective used especially of behavior

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Examples

  • Pillar goes on to mention the statements of the various Republican candidates except Ron Paul whose pledges to Israel are even more self-abnegating from an American point of view.

    MJ Rosenberg: Obama Says U.S. and Israel March As One MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • But love that is self-abnegating, all-consuming, and totally erases any kind of independence looks a lot more like domestic violence than fabulous romance, and doormats aren't actually very interesting as protagonists.

    Today's Book Review 2009

  • • On Twitter, Jeffrey Archer offers a characteristically self-abnegating take on events: "It is not often that I regret not being Mayor of London," he tweets, "but I do this morning."

    Tim Dowling's diary 2011

  • The UK Nannystate is so accustomed to making everything “easier” for its citizenry, so in the habit of removing challenges from the lives of the English people, that it cannot understand the concept of purposely doing something difficult, challenging and self-abnegating.

    September 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • But love that is self-abnegating, all-consuming, and totally erases any kind of independence looks a lot more like domestic violence than fabulous romance, and doormats aren't actually very interesting as protagonists.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • In other words, the maverick who offers himself up as a possible leader is either promising to be one of the most self-abnegating and self-disciplined people alive or he's warning you he's going to be a tyrant.

    Maverickiness and presumption 2008

  • And the monastic, self-abnegating Shankaracharya was a perfect ambassador for this nothingness.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • I, Fenris Badwulf, self-abnegating and least self-aggrandizing servant of You, The People of Mitchieville, wrote this. posted by Fenris Badwulf at 3: 19 AM

    Free Speech? What's that? 2008

  • And the monastic, self-abnegating Shankaracharya was a perfect ambassador for this nothingness.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • And the monastic, self-abnegating Shankaracharya was a perfect ambassador for this nothingness.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

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