stultifying

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of stultify

adj

1. Tending to stultify.

   “Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?”

   “Indeed, the government’s stultifying response betrays an attitude reminiscent of the old mission vicar: only we know what’s really good for them (see Scullion above).”

   “The Judge was from an era when a person could get away with being larger than life — unlike the present day, when so much of our stultifying public discourse has come to be about joining in unearned moral superiority to look down our noses.”