释义 |
dead-beatism U.S. slang. [f. dead beat n.2] Worthlessness.
1869J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 192, I have known men of fine talents..fall to the under plane of dead-beatism. 1882Congress. Rec. 25 Jan. 615/1 [Are we] going to put a premium on judicial trumpery and dead-beatism? |