Drunken yob tries not drinking (8)

I believe the answer is:

sobriety

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'drunken yob tries not drinking' is the definition.
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'drunken yob tries' is the wordplay.
'drunken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'yob'+'tries'='yobtries'
'yobtries' is an anagram of 'SOBRIETY'.

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(Other definitions for sobriety that I've seen before include "Calmness -- 8 -- by Tories (anag)" , "Rational, non-intoxicated condition" , "Abstemiousness" , "characteristic of judge, supposedly" , "restraint" .)

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