phlegmatically
- a word derived from phlegmatic.
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
But it's not to be expected that my former pupil and present lord and master, the count, would take the matter so phlegmatically.
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
