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Meaning of deadeye | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
ˈdɛdaɪ

Definitions

  1. Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
    not-comparable
  2. Cold; unfriendly.
    not-comparable

Examples

“Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.”
“Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.”
“The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.”
“The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.”
“Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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