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• n  a total abstainer

• I was surprised to find, though, that becoming a teetotaler is not necessarily the answer to a healthy heart in the future.
• If Alan, the teetotaler virgin who is transformed by a few shots of tequila into the nerd king of Cancun, were a written character, he would be a lame archetype.
• A teetotaler from South Dakota.

• teetotaller
• teetotalist

News & Articles

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• FDA advisory causes doctors to take another look at proton pump inhibitors
  Marian Mandell is not a teetotaler. The 65-year-old retired Newton real estate broker enjoys her coffee and savors a nice glass of wine, too — both no-nos for people who struggle with acid reflux because the beverages are thought to worsen the ailment.        
  June 14, 2013 - Boston Globe

Quotes

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• George Orwell in Harrisonburg Daily News Record
  The typical socialist, Orwell wrote, is "a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler, and often with vegetarian leanings ...... with a social position he has no intention of forfeiting" and "the mere words...
• Meyer London in Wall Street Journal
  In matters of war I am a teetotaler,said London, in a fifteen-minute speech. "I refuse to take the first intoxicating drink."
• Lori Lipman Brown in Washington Post
  Your whiny teetotaler attitude shines through and damages the credibility of your message,said Lori Brown of Baltimore. "Should young teens drink? No, of course not. Does moderate drinking among 17 and 18 year olds presage the end of...