Hairshirts

Word HAIRSHIRTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Hairshirts"

What do we mean by hairshirts?

A shirt made of haircloth; a cilice; especially one worn by ascetics or the penitent

A state of penitence and humility.

The shallow regimen of feigned, token suffering and "paying your dues" that is disgracefully required of already perfectly-talented newcomers by petty, candle-snuffing incumbents who control some particular bottleneck industry. The term derives from the arcane, masochistic practice of wearing of an incredibly itchy and uncomfortable shirt woven out of human hair, all in the cause of feigning one's humility and penitence for the benefit of some petty religious rulership. Urban Dictionary

When sleeping next to a guy and he is so hairy that you think he's wearing a shirt, but its really just his chest hair that you're feeling. Urban Dictionary

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The word "hairshirts" in example sentences

At the same time, it also contains the greatest number of examples of extreme religious discipline in the form of hairshirts, flagellation, and other types of bodily mortifications. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There were many saints who wore hairshirts all their lives. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Like others leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate? ❋ Unknown (2009)

These fools were jokes before the election and they especially are now as they don their hairshirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like other leaders from other segments of society here in the meeting of the machers, they did not don hairshirts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Do these people wear hairshirts and self flagellate?" ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, dear God, here comes the weepingly self-indulgent hairshirts and self-flagellation: ❋ CC (2008)

And yet, while retarded whackjobs like Hunter were rending their hairshirts over Terri Schiavo, there was another case that was making some headlines as well. ❋ Lindsay Stewart (2008)

November 20, 2007 pilgrims in hairshirts happy thanksgiving!!! ❋ Unknown (2007)

As you know, I think Tim Yeo has been, how shall we put it, a tad hypocritical about his views on global warming and how we should now all wear hairshirts. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some of you wear hairshirts, I read Critical Theory and Science Fiction. ❋ Unknown (2006)

How exactly do you “pluck” one for making hairshirts? ❋ Unknown (2006)

How exactly do you “pluck” one for making hairshirts? ❋ Unknown (2006)

For anyone who might assume that the Greens are the party of recycling and composting, of teepees and hairshirts, their manifesto - which begins with the economy, moves on to everyday life, citizens and government, and only gets to the environment on page 33 - is something of a surprise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cassandras, scritching manically at their bespoke hairshirts, bravely warning the hoi polloi of the certainty of their bleak oblivion. wholesale collapse of the Web on everyone's lips, let's take a look at the latter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Yeah, I could've been published years earlier, but none of [the agents] and publishers would allow it until I went through their life-crushing, [byzantine] [gauntlet] of ass-kissing and hairshirting." ❋ C'est Logique (2011)

"After seeing his hairshirt I was totally [turned off]" "I bet his hairshirt comes in [handy] during the [winter] months" ❋ Lovehairshirts (2012)

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