phlegmatically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"That is not typical for a professor," he tells me phlegmatically.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2022
Photograph: Jan Kruger-IDI/IDI via Getty Images Joe Root looked on phlegmatically, clipping boundaries whenever he could.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2016
The remark annoyed some of the Pakistanis, who viewed it as a crude characterization of a politically delicate process; others took it more phlegmatically.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2012
"When two people are tied together you just have to find a way through it," she adds phlegmatically.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
"Well, Nita, it seems to me that you least of all have the right to wonder over any Russian worship," remarks the old Englishwoman phlegmatically.
From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip
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