abstemious

Example Sentences

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By 2014, she says, “the abstemious, incorruptible leader had become a louche, boorish one.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

During his visit at Cluain Mhic Nóis, Artt makes few complaints about the abbot’s lax management, but everything about his abstemious manner suggests how disappointed he is.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

This bright picture of Australian food — packed with fresh and local produce, invitingly global in its flavors, health-conscious but not abstemious — is relatively new.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2018

Look closely enough—and believe me, I did—and you’ll notice the results of that abstemious discipline on the 57-year-old Cook’s 6-foot-3 frame.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2018

The advice to omit needless words should not be confused with the puritanical edict that all writers must pare every sentence down to the shortest, leanest, most abstemious version possible.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker