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