Definitions
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- adjective Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
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- adjective Somewhat
dead , dull, orlifeless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Notwithstanding Mel Carnahan who won a Missouri Senate race operating under the handicap of being somewhat deadish.
Will Durst: She's in the Attic Will Durst 2010
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Notwithstanding Mel Carnahan who won a Missouri Senate race operating under the handicap of being somewhat deadish.
Will Durst: She's in the Attic Will Durst 2010
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Wonder if this has any heritage in the now-deadish crunchpad?
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Of course, at the beginning, starting on my deadish foot, I asked when they were going to begin.
Archive 2008-01-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Of course, at the beginning, starting on my deadish foot, I asked when they were going to begin.
In my time of dying Elizabeth McClung 2008
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WHAT!?!?!? then hanging psychedelic, grateful deadish kites from the ceiling? um ....
pojken Diary Entry pojken 2003
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Mrs. Hill conducted her to the best bedroom; it was lined with tapestry, and all the colors flown; the curtains were a deadish yellow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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The flat reds and the deadish blues of the Pompeiian frescoes have been altered by chemical action during the 1,850 years 'burial under the lava of Vesuvius.
Color Value 1896
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The phones are old, the computers are old, there are old grey filing cabinets, pushed together at ugly angles, there are a lot of unhealthy, deadish plants, the walls are covered with stranded spots of Blu-Tack and dried-up sticky tape.
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That may not sound like a big deal, but try spending a few hours chatting with a blood-covered, ghost-skinned, bummed-out, deadish man who’s constantly hovering several inches off the ground.
PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010
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