teetotal
I'm not going to pretend I'm a teetotaler. But I don't drink very much.
A confirmed teetotaler, he is said to be the driving force behind the campaign against alcoholism.
His parents are teetotalers so he didn't get the whiskey from his home.
He is a teetotaler, does not smoke, goes to bed early and lives modestly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Drunkenness & sobriety
alky
battered
beer goggles
binge drinker
binge drinking
blasted
dipsomania
hard drinker
have a few (too many)idiom
in a drunken stupor
inebriate
inebriated
muzzy
rat-arsed
ripped
roaring drunkidiom
shit-faced
slaughtered
smashed
whacked

Examples of teetotaler

teetotaler
After a 1993 heart attack, at the age of 47, he became an aggressive teetotaler.
From Gizmodo
The photo calculates what that person's face would like 10 years later if they are heavy drinkers or teetotalers.
From New York Daily News
Some teetotalers there wish the libations had never started flowing again.
From Huffington Post
Actually, the study showed a heightened risk for diabetes among both heavy drinkers and teetotalers.
From CBS News
Wine or champagne are ideal items to regift unless someone is a teetotaler or the champagne is the really cheap variety.
From CBS Local
People with a friend or relative who didn't drink were 29 percent more likely to be teetotalers themselves.
From CNN
So these teetotalers decided to, well, make it a tea holiday.
From NPR
Now, a new study suggests that women who are moderate drinkers actually tend to gain less weight over time than teetotalers.
From CNN
Teetotalers fared significantly poorer on the tests.
From Plain Dealer
I'm pretty much a television teetotaler.
From TIME
In fact, he was even a teetotaler sometimes--when it was judicious to be one.
From Project Gutenberg
I have known persons who were made teetotalers through the sufferings brought on them by the drunkenness of their fathers.
From Project Gutenberg
They assured her without the least regret that they were teetotalers.
From Project Gutenberg
A fisherman may be a teetotaler, but he always smokes.
From Project Gutenberg
Those programs are immediately most popular, like prohibition among teetotalers, which do not at once impinge upon the private habits of the followers.
From Project Gutenberg
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