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dead set

ADJECTIVE
  1. fixed in your purpose
    out to win every event
    dead set against intervening
    bent on going to the theater

How To Use dead set In A Sentence

  • He's dead set on getting a new job.
  • Chips says that Wallis righteously refuses to make any pronouncement at all, but the King is dead set on a morganatic marriage. THE WHITE DOVE
  • Only a handful of people were dead set on following him.
  • The principal and her toadies made it seem that our opinions were important and that the reorganisation would not happen if we were dead set against it.
  • dead set against intervening
  • Jim intends to make a dead set at winning the tennis prize this year.
  • It mystifies me that Republicans are so dead set against such a tame bill. Extra Fizz: Bike Bill Bumped « PubliCola
  • They're dead set against protectionist measures.
  • Sperlich in particular was dead set against it.
  • Howsomever, I thought you was dead set against aristocrats anyway -- your pol'tics was for what you call masses, -- not classes, nor asses neither. God's Good Man
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