Definition of "soul-killing" []

• Destroying the soul; ruining the spiritual nature.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mark - I wish I could believe you (and I will watch again) but the soul-killing moment at the end only works because Teddy knows what he is and chooses lobotomy anyway."
• "When he speaks on the debt negotiations, he is not only extremely boring, with airy and bromidic language—really they are soul-killing, his talking points—but he never seems to be playing it straight."
• "His brother, Scott, awakens from a pot-addled adolescence to a soul-killing job, a regrettable marriage, and a vinyl-sided tract house in the suburbs."