soul-crushing

English

Adjective

soul-crushing (comparative more soul-crushing, superlative most soul-crushing)

  1. Demeaning, boring, disheartening.
    • 2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17:
      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.
    • 2012, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture‎[1], SAGE, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2013, Kristina Lloyd, Thrill Seeker‎[2], Black Lace, →ISBN:
      Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I'd experienced when Baxter and I had split.

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