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• a  self-sacrificing or austere

• Engels was not a hair-shirt socialist; he loved beer, good wine and pretty women, and was proud of his prowess at fox-hunting.
• The quip pointed up the fact that after eight months of war in Korea, the civilian shortages predicted by Washington's hair-shirt cult had not materialized.

• hair-shirted

Quotes

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• Andrea Levy in The Age
  There's a sort of hair-shirt mentality about it,Levy says. "The idea is the only reason you want to explore it is to make people feel guilty, and then move on. But that wasn't why I was interested. I was trying to address 300 years of...