stultifying

English

Verb

stultifying

1. present participle and gerund of stultify

Adjective

stultifying (comparative more stultifying, superlative most stultifying)

1. Tending to stultify.

   Synonyms: useless, ineffective

   • 2016, 35:54 from the start, in Carrie Pilby, spoken by Carrie Pilby (Bel Powley):

     Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?

   • 2017 October 27, Paul Daley, “The whole recognition process has a deep colonial resonance”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Indeed, the government’s stultifying response betrays an attitude reminiscent of the old mission vicar: only we know what’s really good for them (see Scullion above).

   • 2021 July 14, Stephen L. Carter, “What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The Judge was from an era when a person could get away with being larger than life — unlike the present day, when so much of our stultifying public discourse has come to be about joining in unearned moral superiority to look down our noses.

Derived terms

• self-stultifying

Anagrams

• sluttifying