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abstemiously

ADVERB
soberly
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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

In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever notice."

From Time Magazine Archive

There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride.

From Time Magazine Archive

At present I live very abstemiously, and scarcely ever touch wine.

From The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock by Ferdinand Brock Tupper

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 M. Leone Bracker


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