0 A self-denying person gives up what they want so that other people can have it, or because they feel it is morally right for them to give it up:
Even self-denying Greens need clothes.
However, there was no such self-denying restraint in 1981.
His court action has revealed expenditure on a scale that would make Queen Cleopatra seem penny-pinching and self-denying by comparison.
