Example Sentences

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The tepidness of his material here seems almost like a challenge, as if he’s saying: Watch how I can make even these jokes work.

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

Villa’s tepidness left Smith seething on the touchline, and Douglas Luiz and Marvelous Nakamba were particularly overrun in midfield.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

That dynamic might be changing, however, as Apple’s widening lineup of devices and services more than makes up for any tepidness in demand this quarter for its lead product, the $999 iPhone X.

From Reuters • Dec. 28, 2017

There’s a clumsy, soapy tepidness to the procession of plot points, but within individual scenes, the actors pierce the genteel surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2017

But, lo! in the very heart of the matter, upon some tepidness on the part of Kean, or warmth on that of the author, Sotheby withdrew his play.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas