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stultify

[stuhl-tuh-fahy] / ˈstʌl təˌfaɪ /


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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2012

But after a while Mr. Yeston’s tuneful feast begins to satiate and eventually stultify, and by the evening’s end it’s as if you’d eaten a whole buffet of pastry.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 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

She also, in her overwhelming pride, believes that her own nationals in the States possess sufficient power to stultify any great war effort.

From Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer by MacQuarrie, Hector




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