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- adjective Describing something that causes
erosion ofmoral fortitude or that eliminateshope ormotivation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective destructive to the spirit or soul
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Examples
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Booze is a very effective embarrassment suppressant but, even when wasted, there are few things more soul-destroying than catching a glimpse of oneself in a mirror, receiving a lapdance from a 19-year-old Ukrainian trying to pay her way through college.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Four: An Expert Video Guide to Gentlemen's Club Etiquette Paul Carr 2011
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Booze is a very effective embarrassment suppressant but, even when wasted, there are few things more soul-destroying than catching a glimpse of oneself in a mirror, receiving a lapdance from a 19-year-old Ukrainian trying to pay her way through college.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Four: An Expert Video Guide to Gentlemen's Club Etiquette Paul Carr 2011
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The usual run of mistakes people make – get drunk, yell at friends or partners, fall into ill-advised marriages, trust the wrong people, have a soul-destroying haircut, get seduced for a while by a cult philosophy, all these silly, foolish, usual things get blown out of proportion by a gossip-hungry media into the storylines of mental, physical and emotional breakdown.
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But what's most memorable is Massing's take on the susceptibility of so many purportedly sophisticated Americans, in their naïve idealism, to Stalinism's seductive, soul-destroying call.
History That Tells An Unexpected Tale Harry Stein 2011
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The usual run of mistakes people make – get drunk, yell at friends or partners, fall into ill-advised marriages, trust the wrong people, have a soul-destroying haircut, get seduced for a while by a cult philosophy, all these silly, foolish, usual things get blown out of proportion by a gossip-hungry media into the storylines of mental, physical and emotional breakdown.
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But most that are from the Light and trapped because they violated the edict eons ago have continued to choose human female mates . . . but that, too, is a soul-destroying choice given the short length of your lifetimes as humans.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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A recent survey by Sandelman & Associates, a market research and consumer-trends firm, shows that customers mostly prefer regional or smaller national fast food and chain restaurants to gigantic soul-destroying megafood joints like McDonald's.
Top 10 Fast Food Chains In Customer Satisfaction - The Consumerist 2009
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It is kind of soul-destroying and I do apologize for that.
Things My Co-Workers Say Tyler 2009
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In short, while Create may be a social enterprise designed to vanquish the dismal, dreary, soul-destroying inequities of unemployment, you will merely regard it as a nice place to go for lunch.
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But most that are from the Light and trapped because they violated the edict eons ago have continued to choose human female mates . . . but that, too, is a soul-destroying choice given the short length of your lifetimes as humans.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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