deedy

Definitions

1. Industrious; active.
2. Earnest; serious.
3. Genuine, authentic; actual, real.
   dialectal

Examples

“The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, asked by the London Times to give⟳ a brief account of her life, replied: "There isn't much to say⟳. I haven't been at all deedy." Deedy! This is one of those words that, once you have⟳ seen it, makes you wonder⟳ why it isn't in everyday use⟳. The job interviewer, going through a pile of submitted résumés: "This one's all right, but … no, not deedy enough." The biographer or obituarist: "The next few years were his deediest …" The self-improvement guru: "Deediness depends on a positive attitude!" The psychiatrist's patient: "I married George because he seemed so deedy, but …"”

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