dead-and-alive

British  

adjective

1. (of a place, activity, or person) dull; uninteresting

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Example Sentences

But in theory, a quantum computer — one built using the crazy dead-and-alive particles we've been talking about — could have bits that were zeroes and ones at the same time.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2016

Maybe that's why I can't stop thinking about the other Will Grayson's huge eyes in Frenchy's: because he had just rendered the dead-and-alive cat dead.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

But, I say, Dorothy, don’t you let any old woman coax you into a dead-and-alive hole in the woods.

From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn

The sole purpose I had in view at first was the resuscitation of the dead-and-alive newspaper of which I had ventured to take charge.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward

I’ll make a speech this afternoon the like of which hasn’t often been heard in this dead-and-alive hole.

From The Queen Against Owen by Upward, Allen