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Shocked at this lukewarmth, several of his committee members immediately branded his words as a shameful retreat toward isolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were prepared to be met by official lukewarmth, unprepared for a tumultuous, sigh-heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gilfoyle never dreamed that the couple was chaperoned doubly by a certain lukewarmth of emotion and by an ambition to become man and wife.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

What I really am, as far as I know, is one of that body to whom lukewarmth is not an accident but a provisional necessity, till they see a little more clearly.'

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas