abstemious

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  • His choice of breakfast foods became more abstemious and of wine more that of an oenophile.

  • Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.

  • I am not concerned here either to work out a complete view of what law must necessarily do or to defend my abstemious suggestions.

  • That set of claims about what law necessarily does strikes me, incidentally, as ver y abstemious.

  • The considerable lower divorce risks experienced by moderate drinkers (as compared with their more abstemious counterparts) are apparent only at higher marriage durations.

  • Territorials are, of course, extremely abstemious people, but after a spell in the drill hall they sometimes like to have a pint of beer.

  • There is no point in being abstemious if one is going to lose badly.

  • One can drink a bottle of light wine to one glass of port and it is more abstemious to drink port in those circumstances.

  • I believe the people of my country are as sober and abstemious as the people of any other country.

  • Judged on any international comparison, whether in relation to spirits, wines or beer, we are still a relatively abstemious nation.

  • 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.

  • We have been extraordinarily abstemious.

  • We were very abstemious—teetotallers and non-smokers.

  • This was partly possible because of his abstemious habits, eschewing both tobacco and strong drink.

  • The pair's increasingly erratic behavior distressed their more abstemious father, and the worry weakened him.

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