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
That was a sure tough proposition, and we had left it teetotally out of calculations.
From Pardners by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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
I hope I may be teetotally ruinated, if I'd take eight hundred dollars for him.
From The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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
