dead-and-alive

adjective

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

Example Sentences

“Aah, they’ll get over it and suffer worse by the time I’m done with them. They’re getting too fat and sluggish, by the tripes! They’d not last five minutes in a storm at sea. Come on, you dead-and-alive ragbags! Get up here and gather ’round.”

From Literature

With Erwin Schrödinger’s thought experiment concerning a dead-and-alive cat, for instance, the cats simply branch into different worlds, leaving just one cat-in-a-box per world.

From Nature

But in theory, a quantum computer — one built using the crazy dead-and-alive particles we've been talking about — could have bits that were zeroes and ones at the same time.

From Washington Post

Maybe that's why I can't stop thinking about the other Will Grayson's huge eyes in Frenchy's: because he had just rendered the dead-and-alive cat dead.

From Literature

Early associations will cling to a man; and, in spite of a transient admiration for the dashing costume of the Greek and Turk, I warmed to the ungraceful covering of civilized man, even to the long surtout and bell-crowned hat of the Russian marchand; and, more than all, I was attracted by an appearance of life and energy particularly striking after coming from among the dead-and-alive Turks.

From Project Gutenberg