phlegmatically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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"There is no point in bemoaning what is going on" one says phlegmatically, "Andy Burnham's inherited this vexed issue that our jails are full, it's in the nature of being PM."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
"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
The breeds nodded again, a trifle less phlegmatically.
From The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall
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