phlegmatic

Example Sentences

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Last week’s local elections came as close as the phlegmatic Brits come to delivering a revolutionary message.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

Romance: Another of Pynchon’s late crime novels, “Bleeding Edge” also chronicles the tender but tested love between insurance investigator Maxine Tarnower and her phlegmatic husband, Horst.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The fact that credit markets had been at record-tight levels running into the Iranian war heightens the vulnerability of credit markets, although Bergeron did acknowledge the market reaction thus far has been phlegmatic.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

"I just think, you've got to sometimes credit the opposition," said a phlegmatic captain Jos Buttler.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin