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Grammar : Adj
Spell : ded set for 1, 2; ded set for 3
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛd ˈsɛt for 1, 2; ˈdɛd ˌsɛt for 3

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Définition of dead set

  • As in rigid : adj stiff, strict, severe
  • As in strict : adj authoritarian
Example sentences :
  • Dead set on it, and says he wouldn't change his profession to be a king.
  • Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
  • Mamma is dead set against the artistic, and I'm dead set against the fashionable.
  • Extract from : « The Coast of Bohemia » by William Dean Howells
  • He's dead set on Clara goin' for service and she wants to be a typewriter.
  • Extract from : « Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge » by Pemberton Ginther
  • Moreover, all the French here are, and always have been, dead set on Asia.
  • Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
  • They are dead set against England, and claim to belong to France.
  • Extract from : « Ben Comee » by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
  • He got her dead set on him and his stories, that's what he gets for 'em!
  • Extract from : « A First Family of Tasajara » by Bret Harte
  • I suppose he made a dead set at you while I was away—cowardly brute!
  • Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
  • The dead set against him extended from the Fifth Form downwards.
  • Extract from : « The Hero of Garside School » by J. Harwood Panting
  • For our friend Cælius has a dead set made at him by the Clodian gens.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 » by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • No wonder, then, that there was a dead set at them, the living owner maulgre.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt

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