What does teetotaling mean?
Teetotaling means (US) Abstaining from alcohol..
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/ˈtitoʊtəlɪŋ/ · adjective
(US) Abstaining from alcohol..
Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink.
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 ...
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.
Use teetotaling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Teetotaling means (US) Abstaining from alcohol..
Common synonyms include teetotalism.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
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