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  • adjective Teetotal.

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Examples

  • Because while I don't drink alcohol, my teetotalling is a personal preference, not a moral duty, and so I don't think responsible alcohol consumption needs any stronger of a reason than spite.

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  • I ceased to be a teetotalling Pussy the day that my step-mom told me that I had to hit my sisters back instead of just getting beat up.

    HORROR MOVIES ARE EATING EACH OTHER 2008

  • But, weighing the evidence, I decide to stick with my teetotalling ways.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • And then, of course, there is the teetotalling 50% of the Democratic party that never drank the kook-aid and knew he was a Huey Long from the upper midwest all along.

    Obama Reiterates: Combat Troops Out Of Iraq In 16 Months 2009

  • While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy.

    "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender" the rev. paperboy 2009

  • While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy.

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  • No amount of money, police harassment, or made-for-teevee humiliation is going to force everybody to follow some naïve, well-intentioned (if we're being charitable), teetotalling life plan.

    Davis Sweet: Free Rush Limbaugh! (Again) 2008

  • Mormons don't, and thus will as easily fit in among teetotalling Muslims.

    Ellis Weiner: A Daring Solution to the Middle East Dilemma 2008

  • Compared to moderate drinking, teetotalling is actually bad for your health, notwithstanding the odious and coercive nannyism the Temperance Movement prefers.

    People are drinking way too much. Blame Crate & Barrell. Ann Althouse 2008

  • This sermonizing reformer was so appalled at the sins of others, she often rose in church to rebuke the men present, including her husband, a teetotalling minister.

    Diana Meehan: Myth America 2008

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