stultification
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Designed by Richard Lassalle, the home is a visual paean to stultification, down to the outdated beige cradle phone.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2015
That this really did take place in South Africa confirms not merely an inability to take life seriously enough, or a coarsening of the individuals' concerned sensibilities, but a deep and painful kind of stultification.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010
How strange that he was once blamed for the stultification of indie music, for being boring and predictable and directly responsible for Britpop's tedious successor, Dadrock.
From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2010
If Lilah is trying to escape the traps of the lower-middle class, Steve is trying to avoid the respectability and stultification of the upper-middle class.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thought of the perennial stultification of Indian affairs at Washington, whether by politician or philanthropist, was always sure to arouse him.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
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