mind-numbing

British

adjective

extremely boring and uninspiring

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Other Word Forms

mind-numbingly adverb

Example Sentences

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While these types of exhibitions are often an exercise in hunting for an aesthetic needle in a mind-numbing haystack, the quality here is surprisingly consistent with happy discoveries around almost every corner.

From The Wall Street Journal

After the Patriots’ first touchdown, there was “absolutely mind-numbing volatility,” Kane said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The campaign for changes to the building code, the rules that specify in mind-numbing detail exactly how buildings must be constructed, appears to be the next chapter of this fight.

From Los Angeles Times

She garbled her words and flattened her voice to a mind-numbing drone.

From Literature

Freddie Freeman slammed a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the 18th, putting the finishing touch on one of the weirdest, wackiest, most mind-numbing contests ever staged in the Fall Classic.

From The Wall Street Journal

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