tepid
adjective
moderately warm; lukewarm.
tepidly
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a word derived from
tepid.
Example Sentences
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But the way he tepidly bit into the sandwich and talked about it as a “product” struck a nerve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“When legacy auto does occasionally reach out, they tepidly discuss implementing FSD for a tiny program in five years with unworkable requirements for Tesla, so pointless.”
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
We activated his Instagram account and filled it with tepidly race-oriented stories and throwback photos of Watson and his family.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
On the eve of the visit, Putin praised the Chinese proposals, which were tepidly received elsewhere, as “realistic and constructive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
