stultify

Example Sentences

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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Now, that can stultify a pope, in which neutrality becomes an end in itself.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2015

So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2011

The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010

In prosperity he is dull and melancholy; the yellow dross seems to weigh down his spirit, to stultify it; empty his pockets, and it etherialises him.

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