deadeningly

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English

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Etymology

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From deadening +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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deadeningly (comparative more deadeningly, superlative most deadeningly)

  1. In a deadening manner.
    • 1997, Kay Redfield Jamison, An unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness:
      Although it was, on occasion, disturbing to see powerful and complicated emotions and behaviors distilled into deadeningly dull diagnostic phrases []
    • 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
      [] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.