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- noun A
shirt made ofhaircloth ; acilice ; especially one worn byascetics or thepenitent - adjective Advocating or adopting a relatively ascetic lifestyle, especially for environmentalist reasons.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would call a kind of hairshirt need, a-- a need to kind of punish himself in -- in living in very, very difficult ways.
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Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident of the recession, and a rush into headlong 'hairshirt' institutional self-critique as a means to deflect real scrutiny, JJ Charlesworth uncovers a catalogue of avoidable mistakes and the free-market, lifestyle thinking behind them
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET mute 2010
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Amidst a general acceptance of the cash crisis afflicting the ICA as an accident of the recession, and a rush into headlong 'hairshirt' institutional self-critique as a means to deflect real scrutiny, JJ Charlesworth uncovers a catalogue of avoidable mistakes and the free-market, lifestyle thinking behind them
Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET 2010
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That doesn't mean "hairshirt" environmentalism, where the goal is for neo-puritans to denounce people for immorality and trumpet their own superiority.
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds 2010
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole Miss Fitz 2008
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
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'hairshirt' FF budgets, this has come after a time of plenty and during a period where peoples expectations - rightly - have increased.
Slugger O'Toole 2008
treeseed commented on the word hairshirt
originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt), worn to induce some degree of discomfort or pain usually as an act of penance or as a form of corporal mortification
a type of cilice
Seen also as hair shirt
January 22, 2008
treeseed commented on the word hairshirt
a term for "guilt trip"...wearing one's hairshirt
January 22, 2008