adjective. Eating and drinking in moderation.

adjective. Characterized by abstinence or moderation.

Sparing in diet; moderate in the use of food and drink; temperate; abstinent.

Restricted; very moderate and plain; very sparing; spare: opposed to luxurious or rich: as, an abstemious diet.

Devoted to or spent in abstemiousness or abstinence: as, an abstemious life.

Promoting or favoring abstemiousness; associated with temperance.

adjective. Abstaining from wine.

adjective. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

adjective. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.

adjective. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.

adjective. Promotive of abstemiousness.

adjective. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.

adjective. Promotive of abstemiousness.

adjective. sparing in consumption of especially food and drink

adjective. marked by temperance in indulgence

"Dowd has repeatedly mocked Obama's "abstemious" tastes and how these set him apart from the great, fat, American mainstream:"

drinking  gluttonous  self-gratifying  

Spartan  abstentious  abstinent  ascetic  ascetical  

abstemiousness  unabstemious  

economical  frugal  good-tempered  high-minded  law-abiding  

Apostolic  Encratic  Lenten  Pythagorean  Rechabite