Vocabulary Word
Word: abstemious
Definition: sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
Definition: sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
Sentences Containing 'abstemious'
But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.
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