Definitions
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- adjective Abstaining from
alcohol
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- noun abstaining from alcohol
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Examples
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This family has waged a multi-year damage control campaign on Kim's reputation by painting her as a teetotaling, wholesome, serial monogamist.
Melissa Terzis: Kourtney and Kim Take New York: It's Not That Big of a Deal Melissa Terzis 2011
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I mean Liz's 40th birthday and Jack's teetotaling.
TV review: NBC's live '30 Rock' episode lives up to its billing Hank Stuever 2010
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"When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed I earnestly hoped—with a host of advocates of temperance—that it would be generally supported by public opinion" and, he wrote, that teetotaling would eventually take hold.
More Calls for a Drug War Cease-Fire Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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OTOH: Dilan, how do you feel about a law prohibiting possessing alcohol and firearms, even if the guns are locked away when the booze comes out, or the drinker never becomes intoxicated, or is a teetotaling shooter in a house of social drinkers?
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OTOH: Dilan, how do you feel about a law prohibiting possessing alcohol and firearms, even if the guns are locked away when the booze comes out, or the drinker never becomes intoxicated, or is a teetotaling shooter in a house of social drinkers?
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Her son was killed in World War II; she hasn't seen her daughter or her grandchildren in eight months, since she quarreled with her teetotaling son-in-law.
The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor 2011
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"When the Eighteenth Amendment was passed I earnestly hoped—with a host of advocates of temperance—that it would be generally supported by public opinion" and, he wrote, that teetotaling would eventually take hold.
More Calls for a Drug War Cease-Fire Mary Anastasia O'Grady 2011
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During a speech in 2003, she announced that "these days I am a teetotaling, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist."
Danny Miller: Jane Russell, Right-Wing Republican and Good Ol' Gal (1921-2011) Danny Miller 2011
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Her son was killed in World War II; she hasn't seen her daughter or her grandchildren in eight months, since she quarreled with her teetotaling son-in-law.
The American Scholar's Wendy Smith reviews 'Ghost Light' by Joseph O'Connor 2011
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OTOH: Dilan, how do you feel about a law prohibiting possessing alcohol and firearms, even if the guns are locked away when the booze comes out, or the drinker never becomes intoxicated, or is a teetotaling shooter in a house of social drinkers?
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