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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