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• All these pieces establish a climate all too well known in modern dance: studentlike; serious; worthy; mainly heavy-footed; theatrically tepid.2007 September 7, Alastair Macaulay, “Shakespeare’s Scottish Dame: Ambition in Motion”, in New York Times. From the entry studentlike
• The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 628. From the entry coolth
• Ig would have lived in the trough tub, but her lips went blue and quiversome after only a few minutes in even tepid water.2016, Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus. From the entry quiversome
• Warm or tepid water systems that dilute domestic hot water from a water heater with cold water upstream from the outlet source are not recommended.2003, Roger F Jones, Martha J Boss, Dennis W Day, Biological Risk Engineering Handbook. From the entry domestic hot water
• I am afraid I have no use for the nice, tepid people, or that milk and water maiden-auntishness which primly reproves colour and passion.1940, Warwick Deeping, chapter 30, in The Man Who Went Back, London: Cassell, page 326. From the entry maiden-auntishness
• When the pack is removed a cold or tepid sponge down should be given and the patient placed in a warm bed.1929, Eric F. W. Powell, chapter 4, in Water Treatments, C. W. Daniel Company, page 35. From the entry sponge down
• You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN. From the entry equally
• Otherwise, just as surely as sewer socialism has been obliterated from our social scene and merged with tepid liberalism, so will sewer liberalism be blended into “middle-of-the-road” conservatism.1956, The Progressive, volume 20, page 24. From the entry sewer socialism
• Fundamentalists do not deny that the class struggle, even as this might manifest itself in tepid ‘business unionism’, plays a role in articulating the crisis tendencies of the capitalist economy.2019, Murray E. G. Smith, Invisible Leviathan: Marx's Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry class struggle
• He splashed some tepid water on his face from the basin beside his bed and took his time squatting in the garderobe, the night air cold on his bare skin.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 444. From the entry garderobe

Meaning of tepid

1. adjective Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.
2. adjective Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness; lukewarm.

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How do you use tepid in a sentence?

Tepid is used as an adjective. For example: “I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.”

What is a short sentence with tepid?

“I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.”

What does tepid mean?

Tepid means lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.