teetotal
adjective
of or relating to, advocating, or pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink.
teetotally
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a word derived from
teetotal.
Example Sentences
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"I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally.
From Time Magazine Archive
He aint stay down long, n'er, 'fo' he come up en he make lak he teetotally out er win'.
From Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris
That mine is now teetotally lost—the claim was shifted by the landslide.
From Dave Porter in the Gold Fields or, The Search for the Landslide Mine by Walter S. Rogers
I was allers teetotally down on it, an I thought I should persuade him out of it, an tharby save the great disgrace an stane it would be on our country.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith
It was a heap long ways to cows; and I'd be teetotally chawed up and spit out if I was goin' to join these minin' terrapins defacin' the bosom of nature.
From Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White
