phlegmatic

How To Use phlegmatic In A Sentence

• Not that this is likely to perturb a phlegmatic character whose first start against Rangers feels as if it has been a long time coming, following substitute appearances in the past three derbies.
• The taxi driver, a phlegmatic man in middle age, showed no surprise at this request.
• Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
• The brewer was large, raw-boned, and round as a butt of beer, but very fat, unwieldy, short-winded, and phlegmatic. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
• Such an air as I have described, should have no bad effect upon a moist, phlegmatic constitution, such as mine; and yet it must be owned, I have been visibly wasting since I came hither, though this decay I considered as the progress of the tabes which began in England. Travels through France and Italy
• Since becoming captain after the pantomime of last winter he has brought a phlegmatic, laidback approach to the job. The Sun
• Commuting in the rush - hour requires a phlegmatic temperament.
• Spanish medical knowledge of the age, still heavily based on Galen and scholasticism, assumed that light-skinned men were colder and phlegmatic.
• Amid all this disorganisation, this nightmare of old furniture, useless machines and discarded objects sit young people, relatively neatly dressed, phlegmatically drinking coffee from old, cracked cups.
• Yet his bluff and phlegmatic exterior was to some extent illusory. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography