teetotal

IPA: titoʊtˈeɪɫ

noun

  • One who abstains from drinking alcohol.

adjective

  • Abstinent from alcohol; never drinking alcohol.
  • Opposed to the drinking of alcohol.
  • (dated, emphatic) Total.
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Examples of "teetotal" in Sentences

  • Remember – the teetotal and the pregnant can be utilised as booze mules.
  • He was an habitual drunkard, his greatest boast being that he had once been "teetotal" for
  • Livesey started a popular temperance movement, attracting followers including John Turner, who coined the phrase "teetotal".
  • Harrington is famously teetotal, never having let a drop of alcohol cross his lips, so it can assumed he was speaking from the heart.
  • Warpington, eleven according to the Loftus Arms, from which it issued, the owner of which was not on happy terms with his "teetotal" vicar.
  • The worms, as video footage shows, also became overactive in alcohol withdrawal and showed spontaneous and deep body bends - a behaviour rarely seen in 'teetotal' worms.
  • The attempt to combine the friends of temperance on a basis of "teetotal" abstinence, putting fermented as well as distilled liquors under the ban, dates from as late as 1836.
  • In was not until 1832 that at Preston under the advocacy of Joseph Livesay total abstainers first appeared, and the word "teetotal", applied to abstinence, came into general use.
  • If Hazare himself has studiously avoided any political statements, his vision of an India of teetotal, vegetarian rural communities is, despite its roots in Gandhi's vision of rural-based development, a conservative one that appeals to India's right wing.

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