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  • Her tepid response to the promotion surprised everyone.
    tepid = lacking enthusiasm
  • His face splashed into shallow tepid water, which gurgled around him and ran up his nose.  (source)
    tepid = slightly warm
  • When he was in the pint-sized bath, Liesel listened at the washroom door, imagining the tepid water turning to steam as it warmed his iceberg body.  (source)
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  • Specifically, the verb had been accused of being so tepid and prim that it failed to do justice to the labors of the men in the room.  (source)
    tepid = lacking energy
  • The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering, while the larger audience on the left applauded tepidly.†  (source)
  • Putting the cocoon in a cool place, a dark place, but with water, so she wasn't dry; no, not just water, but water mixed with the sap of a certain tree, and kept tepid so that certain reactions could take place in the cocoon.  (source)
    tepid = slightly warm
  • Been watching the polo again?" said Ronny tepidly.†  (source)
  • I sat in the shadow of the dark-green café awning, staring down the length of the Rue des Francs Bourgeois, the tepid sun of a Parisian autumn warming the side of my face.  (source)
  • "I love the party," he answered, tepidly.†  (source)
  • The soup was tepid, and you were lucky if there was a limp potato floating in it.  (source)
    tepid = lukewarm
  • She lay curled in a pale ball in the corner, one arm tepidly fingering the surface.†  (source)
  • The odour is of deep-fat-frying oil blended with pine-scented disinfectant, with a wash of tepid coffee over all.†  (source)
  • So on the weekends we went out to East Hampton, where we stayed in the house of friends of hers who were summering in France; and during the week we met downtown after I got off work, drinking tepid wine in sidewalk cafes, deserted Tribeca evenings with fever-hot sidewalks and hot wind from the subway grates blowing sparks from the end of my cigarette.†  (source)
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