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soul-crushing

adj

Definitions

  1. Demeaning, boring, disheartening.

    • Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.
    • And for an introduction to politics course, zombies represent the threat posed by a textbook that is so chock full of soul-crushing boredom that it will smother the mind and rot the flesh right off of students' faces.
    • Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.

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