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phlegmatic

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1. phlegmatic - Noun

2. phlegmatic - Adjective

3. phlegmatic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Watery.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.

Generating or causing phlegm.

Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. Abigail Adams

Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach. Willa Cather

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic. Kurt Vonnegut

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. Johann Kaspar Lavater

This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him...Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made. Joseph Heller

The world belongs to the phlegmatic. Italian Proverb

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