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abstemious
1. They would be abstemious and uncomfortable with orators who are good entertainers, but not necessarily effective speakers
2. Unlike most members of Smith’s forces, the Selous Scouts were abstemious
3. Brooke was an abstemious man, and to drink a second glass of sherry quickly at no great interval from the first was a surprise to his system which tended to scatter his energies instead of collecting them
4. But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty