abstemious
IPA: æbstˈɛmiʌs
adjective
- Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
- Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
- Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
- Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
- (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.
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Examples of "abstemious" in Sentences
- The man was an abstemious person.
- Jesse did not seem to be abstemious.
- He helps Clifford remain abstemious.
- He did not want to become abstemious.
- He was abstemious and diligence was great.
- In his personal life, Michelangelo was abstemious.
- It was a lavish deed for such an abstemious man to do.
- He was very abstemious and knew no pleasure of the palate.
- The more abstemious can stick to Portuguese mineral water.
- However, I thought I was quite abstemious and sparing in what I did add.
- Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mains ...
- Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mainstream:
- No one need go far in search of proofs that this kind of abstemious living is not merely possible, but far less hurtful to health than excess.
- The second one, "abstemious" I more or less gleaned, also from context, but also because it's close to "abstain", which is near to what it means.
- Breakfast wasn't "eaten" it was "got across your chest", a fried culinary flak jacket of bacon, fried eggs, toast with butter, slices of black pudding, an abstemious blob of HP Sauce.
- He insists it was an "abstemious" occasion, but warm beer was put in a bucket of ice and then Dr Calder knocked the bucket and one of the corks shot out and hit him in the eye, blinding it.
- In Ms. Cappello's book, Jackson comes across as a complete, complex individual: In addition to being an innovative physician, he was an amateur painter, a nonsmoking teetotaler,and an abstemious eater whose sandwiches included exactly one lettuce leaf.