Meanings
nounhair shirt (plural hair shirts)
plural hair shirts
- alternativeAlternative form of hairshirt.
But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times
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hair shirt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20shirt
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“hair shirt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20shirt. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hair shirt,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair%20shirt.
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