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Meanings of phlegm in English
Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions.
Synonyms
Examples for "indifference"
Examples for "indifference"
1
At a regional and national level, however, there has been political indifference.
2
Tsunamis carried away cities, land reclamation projects, and workers with equal indifference.
3
At best they can win a level of indifference about the government.
4
Might my apparent indifference have cost Tom his only chance for work?
5
The men utter similar salutations; and Sekeletu receives all with becoming indifference.
1
The stolidity of stupidity is, of course, commonest among the peasant class.
2
Syme received the remark with stolidity, imagining it to be a joke.
3
Her grave demeanor, now lapsing into apparent stolidity, can be readily understood.
4
Five and a half feet of stolidity, he'd done well at Shiloh.
5
There is no stolidity so utter as that of a waterless tap.
1
His pity was visible, quivering a little under his mask of impassivity.
2
My face must have betrayed more than conventional impassivity, for Evarin smiled.
3
This thing's only just begun, said Frank, with that same odd impassivity.
4
Curiously, she looked upon the impending crisis with the impassivity of a bystander.
5
She would find it impossible to outdo him in the matter of impassivity.
1
His swarthy face was lined, seamed, and terrible with a dark impassiveness.
2
He always either grinned or his face had a half savage impassiveness.
3
Kat was still standing in the same place, watching him with impassiveness.
4
Cynthia's impassiveness, her complete poise, had fascinated Miss Duncan with the others.
5
The stolid impassiveness of the Swiss seemed on the point of giving way.
1
She was emotional, too, with an innocent emotionlessness, and very affectionate.
2
I level a gaze at Sir, whose face rests in the emotionlessness he wears so well.
3
His face had resumed its usual emotionlessness.
4
Simeon is an equally cold hearted man, standing as a representative of the emotionlessness often thought of as uniquely Victorian.
Usage of phlegm in English
1
Remember: Green phlegm does not necessarily mean there is a bacterial infection.
2
Snake gall bladder proves especially effective in dissolving phlegm and improving vision.
3
Chambers and Mitchell, on the other hand, behaved with traditional British phlegm.
4
The room had an odor of phlegm and his breathing was strenuous.
5
Their phlegm leads me on, and I say more than I ought.
6
Temper hawked up a wad of phlegm and spat to one side.
7
Wheezing, cough, phlegm and breathlessness on exertion are suggestive signs for COPD.
8
Just then, Peregrine twisted in the bed, choking on his own phlegm.
9
A glob of glistening red phlegm struck the boy between two toes.
10
Like a man struggling to breathe through lungs nearly flooded with phlegm.
11
Was it because his fervid manner of love-making offended her English phlegm?
12
Was it with him phlegm or contempt of danger, courage or indifference?
13
Then the other symptoms began, including a runny nose, sneezing and phlegm.
14
Harker coughed into a hankie that was stained and wet with phlegm.
15
He would cough constantly, sometimes bringing up big black wads of phlegm.
16
She covered her mouth and coughed hard, phlegm rattling in her throat.
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Phlegm through the time
Phlegm across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common