tepidity
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck faced allegations of harassing behaviour, and when he offered an unimpressive denial, companies funded by his firm banded together to condemn his tepidity.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2017
The people we meet in Little Children are bewildered, frozen in shock at the tepidity of the present, even though they have worked their whole lives to get exactly where they are.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a brilliant Harvard undergraduate, he fell into step briefly with the Fabian Socialists, a tepid movement whose very tepidity appealed to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his career as consul, his personal relationships, and his cloven allegiance toward the U.S. and Islandia, John Lang is forever tortured by indecision and emotional tepidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The word amateur has come by the thousand oddities of language to convey an idea of tepidity; whereas the word itself has the meaning of passion.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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