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abstemiously

adverb as in soberly

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Stimulants and narcotics never act so quickly upon persons accustomed to use spirits freely as upon those who live abstemiously.

Of the three, he drank the most freely; Arundel moderately, and the knight almost abstemiously.

Gilmore had quitted the McBride cottage some three hours before, and in the interim had breakfasted well and napped abstemiously.

At present I live very abstemiously, and scarcely ever touch wine.

He ate on, rapidly but abstemiously, and finished before Mr. Bylash, who had had twenty minutes' start of him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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