ADJECTIVE
  1. accurate and to the point
    She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue
    a dead-on feel for characterization
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How To Use dead-on In A Sentence

  • Her loopy, funny voice is a dead-on mix of desire and ignorance.
  • The satire isn't mean, though it is dead-on: one brilliant sketch takes the restaurant trend of local foodism to its logical extreme, when a pair of diners decide they must visit the home farm of their chicken dinner before ordering it and find that, in this case, the cult of the locavore is literally a cult. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • He's dead-on that it's "porky goodness", though the phrase, which he uses just a bit too often, is as grating to my ears as his nemesis 'fave, "yummo". SaltShaker
  • Williams has undeniable energy, and does dead-on imitations of the Cowardly Lion, Jiminy Cricket and other pop icons.
  • Not since The Informers, based catatonically on the idiotic Bret Easton Ellis book, has the screen unleashed a Hollywood abortion as dismal and dead-on-arrival as Shrink. Psychobabble
  • That allusive, indirect style Westlake assigns to himself gives him plenty of room and time to wander away from his plot and work in wry but dead-on descriptions of people and how they live, the work they do, the things they surround themselves with, the places they go, their eccentricities and vanities and various insanities. Drowned Hopes
  • a dead-on feel for characterization
  • Chekhov's wry humour and dead-on powers of observation are a perfect fit with the clown-inspired style of Toronto's Theatre Smith-Gilmour.
  • Talladega Nights is a more refined version of the kind of anarchic, semi-improvised comedy that we saw in Anchorman, with the added bonus of being a dead-on pastiche of the Hollywood biopic genre.
  • Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing, and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. BookBrowse Previews April Books
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