The pair's increasingly erratic behavior distressed their more abstemious father, and the worry weakened him.
This was partly possible because of his abstemious habits, eschewing both tobacco and strong drink.
We were very abstemious—teetotallers and non-smokers.
We have been extraordinarily abstemious.
To add insult to injury, the sums of money these people have been paying themselves make the directors of our national utilities look positively abstemious.
Judged on any international comparison, whether in relation to spirits, wines or beer, we are still a relatively abstemious nation.
I believe the people of my country are as sober and abstemious as the people of any other country.
One can drink a bottle of light wine to one glass of port and it is more abstemious to drink port in those circumstances.
