dead-and-alive

adjective

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

Example Sentences

The exhibitions he had seen thus far had been full of commonplace, dead-and-alive stuff, he thought.

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A grey-haired woman with a very dead-and-alive face presented herself.

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You know very well if it were not for him the livery man would give us a pair of dead-and-alive old things.

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And here was this dead-and-alive Percy Lunt, saying she never thought!

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Even this dead-and-alive hole might be made entertaining if we put our shoulders to the wheel.

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