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Meanings of phlegmatic in English
Usage of phlegmatic in English
1
He was very cool;-somemight have thought him phlegmatic in his love-making.
2
Veteran negotiators were phlegmatic about the difficulties in agreeing on a text.
3
The marvellous exhibition of endurance aroused the phlegmatic Turk to real enthusiasm.
4
There is the phlegmatic gentleman contemptuously looking up and down the cars.
5
She smiled her haughty smile and spoke in her typical phlegmatic tone.
6
The phlegmatic physician continued his investigations with true German thoroughness and deliberation.
7
She seems in every way phlegmatic, yet she tries to appear animated.
8
Mr Moor was a phlegmatic man; a self-contained and a reticent man.
9
For I am naturally quick and impulsive, and he sluggish and phlegmatic.
10
He threw the fire of his soul into their dull, phlegmatic faces.
11
Langdon, more phlegmatic of temperament, stood the gaff with less apparent friction.
12
A Dutch lady burns nothing about her phlegmatic admirer but his tobacco.
13
To this Robin made no response, for Robin was young and phlegmatic.
14
They are stunted and ill-shaped, fleshy and dark, bilious rather than phlegmatic.
15
He looks phlegmatic, but at heart he is rather a little beast.
16
For the rest, she's phlegmatic, has no aspirations, and evidently no sensitiveness.
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Phlegmatic through the time
Phlegmatic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common