hair-shirted

ADJECTIVE
  1. self-sacrificing or austere
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How To Use hair-shirted In A Sentence

  • ‘Ethical living’ was once the domain of hair-shirted hippies living in the sticks; now it has been adopted by the urban glitterati.
  • The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom.
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