I try to be a reasonably abstemious individual.
In his personal life, Michelangelo was abstemious .
And so I was rather abstemious when I got there.
Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemious existence on stage.
Our left critiques power, and is abstemious about engaging with it.
Despite his abstemious personal habits, he was endlessly generous to his students.
The T’ang was usually abstemious , but tonight his mood seemed different.
abstemious will do us all good.
I’m usually quite abstemious during daylight hours if I have any driving to do.
Must be abstemious to sing.
But such people are abstemious in many other ways, e.g. they do not drink tea.
When you carved it up, you didn’t take much – how abstemious of you!
The teachings of the high Spirit are abstemious , and, in regard to particulars, negative.
In some ways, Livesey seems to have led an abstemious , not to say ascetic life.
The abstemious life of these Christians, the simplicity and earnestness of their preaching and teaching, had their effect.
We believe it protects us from the shameful indulgence of too many books by insisting on a rigorous, abstemious diet.
As the Luftwaffe was reduced to abstemious use of its fighter arm, so was the German Navy regarding its U-boats.
He conversed with the Russian in French, and with Antonietta in German, so the party was very abstemious yet convivial.
His diet was abstemious.