Vocabulary Word
Word: tepid
Definition: lukewarm; slightly warm;
Definition: lukewarm; slightly warm;
Sentences Containing 'tepid'
He quite shook hands with me--which was a violent proceeding for him, his usual course being to slide a tepid little fish-slice, an inch or two in advance of his hip, and evince the greatest discomposure when anybody grappled with it.
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
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