mind-numbingly

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mind-numbing +‎ -ly.

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mind-numbingly (comparative more mind-numbingly, superlative most mind-numbingly)

  1. In a mind-numbing (boring) manner.
    Hypernym: very
    mind-numbingly tedious work
  2. In a manner that leaves one stunned and horrified.
    Hypernym: very
    a mind-numbingly stupid take
    • 2001, Mike N. Castle, editor, School Violence: Views of Students & the Community: Congressional Hearings‎[1], DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:
      Democracy is in disrepair, big business alternatingly rents, seeks, or foists cultural rot onto the complacent public, and education is mindnumbingly awash in psychological fads.

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