Sylvia Plath

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.

American Poet

Walter Gropius

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

German Architect

William Greider

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

American Author

Max Baucus

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

American Politician

Mercedes Schlapp

The tentacles of Islamic State are far-reaching, and the restrained and tepid international response that Mr. Obama has pursued will not eliminate this terrorist organization.

American Public Servant

Ron Fournier

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

American Journalist

Gad Saad

In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices.

Canadian Scientist

Randall Terry

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

American Celebrity

Use 'tepid' to describe something warmer than cold but not hot, like a bath.

Mild Temperature

'Tepid' often suggests disappointment, as when something is expected to be hot.

Negative Implication

Describing food or drinks as 'tepid' can hint they are not fresh or properly prepared.

Subtle Warning

Use 'tepid' for performances or presentations that lack vitality or vigor.

Subdued Energy

When support is given but not passionately, 'tepid' is an accurate descriptor.

Mild Support

'Tepid' can diplomatically describe a reaction that is non-confrontational but uninterested.

Gentle Refusal

 Everyone moves from the cold room to the tepid room and to the very hot room. Oops! More than an hour later, the bathers leave massaged, oiled,