Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lukewarmness.
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Examples
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They will slip back into their traditional political lukewarmth.
Can Obama count on a big turnout of youth voters to give him the winning edge? I think not. Ann Althouse 2008
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Criticisms from the Right, aside from debating his job performance we have him to thank for not going to Baghdad in '91, for instance, have noted his, shall we say, lukewarmth.
"He is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage" -- Colin Powell endorses Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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What I really am, as far as I know, is one of that body to whom lukewarmth is not an accident but a provisional necessity, till they see
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884
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a certain lukewarmth of emotion and by an ambition to become man and wife.
We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914
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