In the films the message is women want a ring at all self-abasing costs.
Proust was almost uniquely self-abasing, seeming to believe that the nature of friendship demanded that he turn into the most compliant and self-denying of figures.
Vegans and vegetarians may be so sensitive to the stereotype of annoying militant radical that we remain a little shy, or a little self-abasing, about our diet and lifestyle ethics.
The rich man knew that his son was ignorant and self-abasing.
The American neocons only ever had contempt for this self-abasing style of diplomacy.
The distrustful, the self-abasing, the mendicant flatterers, and above all the liars: it is a fundamental belief of all aristocrats that the common people are untruthful.
The self-abasing masochist anthem "Nothing" is spoilt by the unnecessary elongation of a vocal chant coda.
He is also capable of equally disturbing acts of pure, self-abasing masochism.
Posner has resigned himself to loving Dinah in the self-abasing tradition of courtly love, the object forever unattainable.
It got no publicity in the media, being drowned out by self-abasing gibberish.
Definition of self-abasing in US English:
self-abasing
adjective
Belittling or degrading oneself.
a timid, defensive, self-abasing response
Example sentencesExamples
The distrustful, the self-abasing, the mendicant flatterers, and above all the liars: it is a fundamental belief of all aristocrats that the common people are untruthful.
Proust was almost uniquely self-abasing, seeming to believe that the nature of friendship demanded that he turn into the most compliant and self-denying of figures.
He is also capable of equally disturbing acts of pure, self-abasing masochism.
In the films the message is women want a ring at all self-abasing costs.
The American neocons only ever had contempt for this self-abasing style of diplomacy.
The self-abasing masochist anthem "Nothing" is spoilt by the unnecessary elongation of a vocal chant coda.
Vegans and vegetarians may be so sensitive to the stereotype of annoying militant radical that we remain a little shy, or a little self-abasing, about our diet and lifestyle ethics.
Posner has resigned himself to loving Dinah in the self-abasing tradition of courtly love, the object forever unattainable.
The rich man knew that his son was ignorant and self-abasing.
It got no publicity in the media, being drowned out by self-abasing gibberish.