[
US
/ˈstəɫtəˌfaɪ/
]
VERB
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cause to appear foolish
He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent -
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work
This measure crippled our efforts -
prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence
nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself
How To Use stultify In A Sentence
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
- This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying.
- But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought.
- If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
- Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable.
- These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
- Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past.
- The second case took place in the 1950s, by which time the reformism of the 1930s had sunk into a stultifying coalition: francophone religious and political elites allied with anglophone elites in business.
- Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students.
- She can feel the stultifying terror caught from Mama's hand, the abject stillness of Papa. SEA MUSIC
