Verb (used with object), : Menial work can stultify the mind.    From Dictionary.com. 

One plus: stultifying centralization is no threat here.    From Wordnik.com.  [City On The Edge] Reference

His eyes opened to brightness as stultifying as the dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blind Spots] Reference

This stultifying effect produces a most undesirable result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Industrial Progress and Human Economics] Reference

That kind of environment has a stultifying effect on artists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Tv Is Better Than The Movies] Reference

Mason felt that he was stultifying his country in condemning slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

“I find marriage boring and intellectually stultifying,” she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Big's Plea: You Love Me, Damn It!] Reference

Peace has started grating on our nerves, its ordinariness is stultifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rook] Reference

File this under the dumbing down of an already incurious and stultifying intolerance.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

(END VIDEO CLIP) PACINO: Well, it was -- at first it was sort of stultifying, you know?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference

FRIEDMAN: Well, I think there ` s something stultifying dull about too much Sarah Palin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009] Reference

A recent spate of advice books runs the gamut from amusing to stultifying to ... useful?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three books offer advice] Reference

This cover boldly challenged prevailing aesthetic norms in the stultifying Eisenhower era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad Magazine] Reference

"Nemo" + Pixar's fun fish tale is perfect antidote to stultifying darkness of new "Matrix.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conventional Wisdom] Reference

Idle declamation against 'fact mongers' well becomes such self-stultifying dealers in fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles] Reference

Last evening, after a stultifying day of leaderly remarks, the Cuban leader strode to the lectern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upstaged] Reference

Reading and surfing and — more to the point — viewing Google ads was a slow, stultifying chore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web] Reference

Too often such pretensions lead to stultifying prose, self-righteous bloviating, or empty propaganda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can writers change the world? Steven V. Roberts, Anita Silvey and Bruce Feiler respond] Reference

This had great importance in racial survival, but had very stultifying effects on individual personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

It was created after the war, in 1948, and so was not mired in the often stultifying ways of the old Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

United Nations 'agencies' stultifying, unscientific regulatory strictures will be particularly hard to reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Greener Earth Day] Reference

Those people mean business in enslaving and stultifying Pakistan, which they might be able to do if given the chance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2004] Reference

Already, the author stated, the seeds of a massive and stultifying conformity were present in the nations of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status Civilization] Reference

The fact that she was so terrified of being kidnapped that her world had shrunk to a stultifying routine meant nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]

To the man who had roamed through all the continents of the world this forced inactivity seemed appalling -- stultifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Our industrial system has resulted in almost stultifying men economically and making most of them economically non-productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come] Reference

Let's start I think that that was one of the most stultifying debates I've ever seen and I'm not a big fan of them to begin with.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2008] Reference

Language teaching in mainland China is almost uniformly poor, thanks to outdated materials and a wooden, stultifying teaching style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mandarin Scam] Reference

Beth's sense of the word, was to Beth what plainness is to beauty; so, while many of her contemporaries were stultifying themselves with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

In that sense, the crisis in central Africa should have acted as a useful corrective to what has become a stultifying conventional wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Home] Reference

Did it ever occur to you to say that within the department or was the department culture so stultifying that you felt you couldn't do that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2006] Reference