abstemious
adjective
sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
abstemiously
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a word derived from
abstemious.
Example Sentences
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The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.
From Time Magazine Archive
There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."
From Time Magazine Archive
The ancient Gauls, who were a very brave, strong, and hearty race, lived very abstemiously.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
Fortunate it was now for the tall woodsman that he had lived abstemiously and laboured sanely all that winter, and could depend upon both wind and limb.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
