stultifying

• Therefore, many females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer living with males or peddling their asses on the street, thus having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best,--if able to get a "good" job--co-managing the shitpile. —  SCUM Manifesto
• But his formative years had been spent in stultifying isolation, ami when he was set free he had 'neither spirit nor experience' nd was unable even to ride a horse, an essential accomplishiotfor a gentleman of his rank. —  TheChildrenof
• Finally, I have to say something about all the cheap shots that Bauerlein takes that are aimed at the brain-stultifying din of crappy pop music that no one is defending, and precisely the kind of music that teens are rejecting through Internet radio and other online alternatives to what he not very carefully considers to be the ubiquitous pap of "Tupac and Britney." —  virtualpolitik
• But No. 3 may come as a surprise: Houston, known for its oil refineries, stultifying, smog-choked humidity and polluted Galveston Bay. —  Forbes.com: News
• A radical idea may be healthy as a provocation; a temperate idea may be stultifying. —  Amygdala

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