Institutions often buy into big deals for which there is lukewarm interest, so they will be favored when a hot stock offering comes along.

She is a young woman who has shown only a lukewarm interest in traditional academics, but has displayed a talent for art.

I scrunched up my face, trying to convey what was still a lukewarm interest at best.

She glanced at it with perfect unblinking composure; even, one might say, with lukewarm interest.

To this Viola wrote a reply expressing lukewarm interest.

It met with lukewarm interest from Macintosh users because of its limited performance, according to analysts.

But the city has expressed only lukewarm interest in the idea, saying the airport land is worth closer to $2 billion.

He spoke to Pakistani ex-pats, and said there seems lukewarm interest in attending the series.

Some part of him kept up a lukewarm interest, enough to make the performance convincing.

The Giants were considered to be the front-runners, but showed "lukewarm" interest.