dead slow
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Their program is: full speed ahead in economics and education, dead slow in politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ComPilots provide the latest autopilot technology, including automatic bowthruster assist for dead slow or station keeping.
From Time Magazine Archive
Snow squalls and heavy seas made visibility poor and forced Endurance to creep forward with the engines dead slow as it headed into Stromness Bay.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The engines were working dead slow, while a screen of sacks surrounded the funnel, hiding any sparks which might have betrayed the presence of the launch.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
He’ll overtake us in no time, going dead slow as we are.”
From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Herbert Strang
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