abstemious

Example Sentences

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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

A properly dressed salad is no more abstemious than anything else.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2019

This bright picture of Australian food — packed with fresh and local produce, invitingly global in its flavors, health-conscious but not abstemious — is relatively new.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2018

Everyone drank it, constantly, with the exception of the rather abstemious Hitler himself.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2017

An ardent Methodist, he was an abstemious, plain-spoken man, tall and muscular, with a dry sense of humor.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson