• Teetotalling

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    teetotalling

    1. Teetotal.
      • 1958: Vance Nye Bourjaily, The Violated: A NovelMost were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
      • 1988: Arnold M. Ludwig, Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: Refocusing the PastTheir teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.
      • 1976: Sheldon M. Novick, The Electric War: The Fight Over Nuclear PowerInsull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...
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