What does dead-alive mean?
Dead-alive means Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality..
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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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Dead-alive means Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality..
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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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