adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Archibald is moved by the inappropriateness of the gift; he is known as the most abstemious man around.
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But such people are abstemious in many other ways, e.g. they do not drink tea.
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Gallstones he'd had and, though an abstemious man, gout.
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I try to be a reasonably abstemious individual.
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In some ways, Livesey seems to have led an abstemious , not to say ascetic life.
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Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemious existence on stage.
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The T'ang was usually abstemious , but tonight his mood seemed different.