单词 | deadly-liveliness |
释义 | > as lemmasdeadly-liveliness deadly-lively adj. combining dullness and liveliness, lively in a gloomy and depressing way (colloquial); hence deadly-liveliness. ΚΠ 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xli. 398 Even her black dress assumed something of a deadly-lively air from the jaunty style in which it was worn. 1881 Mrs. Oliphant in Macmillan's Mag. 43 492 He was taken to Mentone..to the deadly-liveliness..and invalid surroundings of that shelter of the suffering. 1891 Spectator 12 Dec. 855 The deadly-liveliness of flippant and forced humour. < as lemmas |
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