His diet was abstemious.
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Abstemious
/æbˈstiː.mɪ.əs/
Synonyms for "abstemious" (78 found)
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3 entriesdietary restraintlow alcohol intakemonastic fasting
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5 entriesabstemious behaviorabstemious dietabstemious diningabstemious eatingabstemious lifestyle
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2 entriesmore abstemiousmost abstemious
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The professor was famous for his abstemious meals.
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His abstemious habits gave him a skeletal appearance.
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It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
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