Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destroying the soul; ruining the spiritual nature.

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Examples

  • One of the things I found soul-killing about the tradition I was raised in was the insistence that Christian faith was about unswerving belief that could not accommodate questions or disagreement.

    Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011

  • One of the things I found soul-killing about the tradition I was raised in was the insistence that Christian faith was about unswerving belief that could not accommodate questions or disagreement.

    Greg Garrett: This, That, And The Other Jesus Greg Garrett 2011

  • But when, at one point, he makes a soul-killing choice to follow the Bureau's plan, the shambling, old-man gait with which he ends the scene says what he can't bear to speak aloud.

    Dance's starring role in 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011

  • Tackling taboo after soul-killing taboo, NSP leaves no sex stone unturned in its battle to rid us of our fears and frustrations.

    WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party Carol Hartsell 2011

  • Though their tales are worlds and centuries apart, two films grapple with soul-killing pain and financial privation.

    'Precious' is raw and painful but poignant 2009

  • You take the constant waffling, the incessant desire for drama, the need by your quarterback to flip the script whenever it suits him, and the soul-killing picks at the worst possible times because at his best, there may never have been a quarterback with Favre's sheer skill.

    Dealing with the devil Doug Farrar 2010

  • When he speaks on the debt negotiations, he is not only extremely boring, with airy and bromidic language—really they are soul-killing, his talking points—but he never seems to be playing it straight.

    Out of the Way, Please, Mr. President Peggy Noonan 2011

  • Mark - I wish I could believe you (and I will watch again) but the soul-killing moment at the end only works because Teddy knows what he is and chooses lobotomy anyway.

    Movie Review: Shutter Island » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • His brother, Scott, awakens from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job, a regrettable marriage, and a vinyl-sided tract house in the suburbs.

    The Condition by Jennifer Haigh: Book summary 2010

  • Tackling taboo after soul-killing taboo, NSP leaves no sex stone unturned in its battle to rid us of our fears and frustrations.

    WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party Carol Hartsell 2011

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