All 3 Uses of
tepid
in
The Age of Innocence
- …was no less sensitive than its moral standard—he carried everything before him, and all New York into his drawing-rooms, and for over twenty years now people had said they were "going to the Beauforts' " with the same tone of security as if they had said they were going to Mrs. Manson Mingott's, and with the added satisfaction of knowing they would get hot canvas-back ducks and vintage wines, instead of tepid Veuve Clicquot without a year and warmed-up croquettes from Philadelphia.†
Chpt 3
- Mr. Jackson had helped himself to a slice of the tepid filet which the mournful butler had handed him with a look as sceptical as his own, and had rejected the mushroom sauce after a scarcely perceptible sniff.†
Chpt 5 *
- He was weary of living in a perpetual tepid honeymoon, without the temperature of passion yet with all its exactions.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(tepid) less heat (or enthusiasm) than might be expected