abstemiously
- 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
Gilmore had quitted the McBride cottage some three hours before, and in the interim had breakfasted well and napped abstemiously.
From The Just and the Unjust by Bracker, M. Leone
He lived abstemiously, rose at six, went to bed at nine, and might be found, during most of the intervening hours, hard at work at his desk in the little office behind his shop.
From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
