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- noun Plural form of
teetotaller .
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Examples
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"Oh, you did not get hold of the right kind of teetotallers," said the minister.
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The fact appears to be, that they gain more, physically, by the pure air of the cliffs and moors on which their cottages are built, and the temperance of their lives (many of them are "teetotallers"), than they lose by their hardest exertions in the underground atmosphere in which they work.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856
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An analysis of the records showed that light and moderate drinkers scored better than both teetotallers and heavy drinkers on a range of health indicators.
Moderate Drinkers are Healthier than Teetotallers | Impact Lab 2010
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People who drink two or three glasses of wine in the evening are healthier than teetotallers.
Moderate Drinkers are Healthier than Teetotallers | Impact Lab 2010
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✒ Alastair Campbell has joined a list of history's most powerful teetotallers, according to the Daily Mail, fit to rank alongside such luminaries as Abraham Lincoln, George Bush, Vladimir Putin and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Diary 2010
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Brain scans of more than 1,800 people found that people who downed 14 drinks or more a week had 1.6% more brain shrinkage than teetotallers.
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(He teetotallers and nearly falls to his deathbed.)
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Alcohol cuts the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, especially among women and non-smokers, and drinkers are at lower risk than teetotallers, according to researchers from Valencia University in Spain, writing in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
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Drinkers at lower risk than teetotallers, according to Valencia University academics
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He wished “all the drunkards were teetotallers, if it were only to be rid of them.” on August 18, 2008 at 3:45 pm | Reply Yancey Grantham
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