abstemious
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During his visit at Cluain Mhic Nóis, Artt makes few complaints about the abbot’s lax management, but everything about his abstemious manner suggests how disappointed he is.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022
Whatever’s abstemious in aristocratic ways of moving gets critiqued through flawless mimicry until it emerges enhanced, almost unrecognizable, suddenly irresistible.
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021
Everyone drank it, constantly, with the exception of the rather abstemious Hitler himself.
From Slate • Jul. 12, 2017
Tara, who writes that she gains weight easily, is interested in the question of why some people eat like hogs and stay thin, while others expand no matter how abstemious they try to be.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
“I should have guessed. Too opulent for your abstemious revolutionary and yourself, I take it?”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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