100 important words: abstemious

abstemious
Means: Eating and drinking in moderation; sparingly used or consumed, restricted to bare necessities.
Review: One possible reason this word is rarely used is our modern all-you-can-eat culture.
First Google link is to dictionary: Yes, 8 out of 10 links on the first results page are to dictionary sites.
Examples:
It was the kind of town that considered someone who ordered the Large KFC bucket, rather than the King Size, to be unhealthily abstemious.
Having grown up in a household that never denied her anything, Cindy had naturally become abstemious.

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New York Times	35
USA Today	1
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