deadeningly

English

Etymology

deadening +‎ -ly

Adverb

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.