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- noun Plural form of
phlegmatic .
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Examples
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The good Lord help those phlegmatics who can stand by unmoved when a self-contained man reveals the anguish of his soul in one passionate outburst.
Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Madame Beck's school -- phlegmatics -- pale, slow, inert, but kind - natured, neutral of evil, undistinguished for good.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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As a rule phlegmatics are great listeners, but they live in the hope that one day you'll stop talking and ask them how they are.
It's my life... 2009
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Biden seems to me to be playing the role of the TA in this election, running recitation sections in which he does a great deal of down-home pandering, desperately trying to wake up the phlegmatics by providing a more emotionally relatable, less intellectual version of the platform.
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I knew she was well enough; there were girls like her in Madame Beck’s school — phlegmatics — pale, slow, inert, but kind-natured, neutral of evil, undistinguished for good.
Villette 2003
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