teetotaling

alternative UK teetotalling

1. USnot comparableAbstaining from alcohol.

   Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.

   1958, Vance Nye Bourjaily, The Violated: A Novel

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   Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.

   1988, Arnold M. Ludwig, Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: Refocusing the Past

   Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...

   1976, Sheldon M. Novick, The Electric War: The Fight Over Nuclear Power

   The name of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.

   2007 August 15, The New York Times, “Off the Menu”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

alternative UK teetotalling

1. participlepresentpresent participle of teetotal