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adj. - Showing little emotion.

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Usage examples (5)
  • ’ ‘Schismatical, thou shouldst have said, ’ quoth the barber, ‘and not phlegmatical.
  • ’ ‘Are my books perhaps, ’ quoth the innkeeper, ‘heretical or phlegmatical, that you would thus roughly handle them?
  • We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to...
  • "What phlegmatical reasons soever were made you," wrote the Queen, who but three weeks before had been so gentle and affectionate to her, ambassador, "how happeneth it...
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