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English
Adjective
dead-alive (comparative more dead-alive, superlative most dead-alive)
- Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.
- 1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude
- In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
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