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unteetotal

unteetotal adjective: not teetotal.

Adjective

unteetotal (comparative more unteetotal, superlative most unteetotal)

  1. Not teetotal.
    • Without the mopuses to pay for your call, the demand will be like Owen Glendower’s very unteetotal demand for “spirits from the vasty deep,” which, to the disappointment of thirsty souls in all time to come, most notoriously failed in producing the supply.1840 November, “Something Mysterious”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume LX, number CCXXXIX, page 373
    • In fact water was as little liked for the inside as for the outside, or else how could they venture to perpetrate the unteetotal declaration, “Water breeds frogs in the belly, but wine kills worms.”1869 July 17, “English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. […]”, in The Examiner and London Review, number 3,207, page 455, column 1

Examples of unteetotal in a sentence

  • “Unchristian Teetotalers and Unteetotal Christians.”1888 November 30, The Christian: […], number 983, London: Morgan & Scott, […], page 9:
  • Tridge a final cheery but unteetotal wish for his good luck; […]1923, F[rancis] Morton Howard, “A Matter of Advertisement”, in “Strictly Business”, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company...
  • He is middle-aged, of unteetotal aspect, and wears brown overalls.1937, George Shiels, “The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three Acts”, in The Passing Day: A Play in Six Scenes & The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three...
  • The vegan teetotaller Greg Chappell has fulfilled two-thirds of a promise to his very unvegan and unteetotal old team-mate Doug Walters.2018, “Winners and losers”, in Matthew Engel, editor, WHAT Did You Say Stopped Play?: 25 Years of the Wisden Chronicle, Wisden, →ISBN, page...

Forms of unteetotal

comparativemore unteetotal
superlativemost unteetotal

Origin of unteetotal

From un- + teetotal.

Questions about unteetotal

What does unteetotal mean?
Unteetotal means not teetotal.
How do you use unteetotal in a sentence?
“Unchristian Teetotalers and Unteetotal Christians.”
What part of speech is unteetotal?
Unteetotal is an adjective.

Words near unteetotal in the dictionary

  1. untectonized
  2. untedded
  3. untedious
  4. unteeming
  5. unteethed
  6. unteetotal
  7. untelegenic
  8. untelegraphed
  9. unteleological
  10. untelephoned
  11. unteleported

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