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deadeningly

adv

Etymology

From deadening + -ly.

Definitions

  1. In a deadening manner.

    • Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases […]
    • […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

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