as in ascetic
given to or marked by restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
being abstemious diners, they avoid restaurants with all-you-can-eat buffets
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In Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, you’re reminded that South Korea is neither homogeneous nor locked into an abstemious order.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious, frugal and ascetic in the White House.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout.
—Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
People grow more risk-averse, abstemious, religious.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious, frugal and ascetic in the White House.
—Washington Post, 18 June 2021
This woman, Margaret Bolden Wilson, was a Seventh-day Adventist who would have been considered abstemious even by the most devout.
—Colin Asher, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
People grow more risk-averse, abstemious, religious.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021
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“Abstemious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abstemious. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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