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lymphatic
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synonyms: torpid, languourous, languid, phlegmatic, enervated, indolent ???
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Definition:sluggish; lacking enthusiasm
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As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic maid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost éclat.
H.G. Wells. The Invisible Man.
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he often took the little Homais into the garden—little brats who were always dirty, very much spoilt, and somewhat lymphatic, like their mother.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary.
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