"tepid reception" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a lukewarm or unenthusiastic response or welcome. Example: The new policy received a tepid reception from employees, with many expressing concerns about its impact on their workload.
It is a toehold sorely needed, given the tepid reception for the Vue.
Apple's stock slid 3.76 percent, to $509.79, after the iPhone 5 received a tepid reception in China.
Chances are you probably forgot The X-Files was even revived this year, thanks to the tepid reception it received.
After several Midtown club appearances, he was signed to appear at the Apollo Theater, where he received a tepid reception.
Another sequel, "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit II" (Arbor, 1984) had a tepid reception, compared with its predecessor.
Zynga's executives brushed aside Friday's tepid reception, calling it an insignificant data point in the context of the company's grander goals.
Sometimes it breeds resignation and a grudging respect, and someone who sticks around long enough — rising from defeat, muscling though disgrace — wears people down, in the manner of a neighbor who drops by, year after year, with a Christmas fruitcake, undeterred by the lukewarm reception and tepid thank-you note.
C1 Tepid Welcome for Kraft Stock Kraft Foods got a lukewarm reception in its first day of trading, after raising $8.68 billion in the nation's second-largest initial public offering ever.
"Hair" opened in October 1967, but the place it came to hold in the history of theater as the first (and one of very few successful) "rock" musicals could hardly be imagined at the time, given the tepid critical reception and the hesitance Papp displayed in capitalizing on its popularity with audiences.
Although the production had a "tepid critical reception", it was popular with audiences.
Unfortunately, the latter half of the developer's life was less memorable, eventually becoming more associated with licenced games, their last release being an adaptation of The Golden Compass, which, like the film it was based on, received a tepid critical reception.
