deny oneself
Forgo personal pleasures
To deny oneself is to forgo pleasures or comforts, usually for moral, religious, or disciplinary reasons.
The phrase carries overtones of asceticism or self-discipline: She denied herself dessert while dieting.
It can also mean refusing to indulge one's desires: He denied himself the satisfaction of responding to the insult.
- renounceFormally give up
- give upStop attempting something
- abstainDeliberately not do
- go withoutLack something needed
- refuseReject or garbage
say no · abnegate · do without · hold back · delayed gratification · asceticism · deprive · discipline · temperance · renunciation · fasting · penance · hair shirt · curb · stoicism · mortification · cold shower · thrift
deny oneselfindulge
Satisfy a craving
pamper · spoil · let oneself go · splurge · overindulge
deny oneselflive it up
Enjoy oneself lavishly
revel · luxuriate · feast · live large · carouse
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