adverb
- in a way that shows restraint, especially in eating or drinking
Usage: formal
Examples
- She ate abstemiously, taking only small portions at dinner.
- He lived abstemiously, avoiding alcohol and rich foods.
- The monk dined abstemiously on simple bread and water.
- They spent abstemiously during their retirement years.
- The athlete trained abstemiously, carefully controlling his diet.
- She abstemiously declined the second helping of dessert.