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词汇 stultifying
释义 stultifying
adjective
 formaldisapprovinguk /ˈstʌl.tɪ.faɪ.ɪŋ/ us /ˈstʌl.tə.faɪ.ɪŋ/
preventing new ideas from developing: 阻碍发展的;使僵化的
These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.这些国家正在努力摆脱几十年来国家专制体制对发展的束缚。
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Unhelpful and Uncooperative
awkward
awkwardly
awkwardness
balky
deterrent
non-constructive
non-cooperation
non-cooperative
obstructionism
obstructionist
passive-aggressive
pre-emptive
stiflingly
stultifyingly
unaccommodating
uncooperativeness
under your feetidiom
unforthcoming
unhelpful
unhelpfully

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Examples of stultifying


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It also hails a very specific, liberating nonsense meant to deliver readers from the stultifying order of the mundane.
Later entries document more subtle or prosaic impediments - husband's careers, lack of childcare, lack of due recognition - all stultifying in their own ways.
Learning to read and write t. o. is a stultifying exercise in rote learning - whereas learning a phonemic orthography inculcates habits of logical thought, deductive reasoning and careful observation.
If genre is taken as ground, it will exert the stultifying and taxonomizing pressure so often erroneously taken to be the end-result of genre study in general.
It has every potentially stultifying quality but is genuinely readable, even gripping, keeping one from one's bed in the small hours, resistant to the delay of note-taking.
André thus solves at a single stroke many of the current problems facing a present-day composer of opera or music theatre: the result is as ill-starred as it is stultifying.
It is just possible that in place of the old, stultifying, sectarian divide there could be another issue.
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All too often the pursuit of excellence gives way to stultifying egalitarianism.
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Nothing could be more stultifying than the present exorbitant rates.
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Both parties must take some blame for the stultifying effect of sterilising land which we need for building purposes, for open spaces and the rest.
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A maximum temperature can be equally unpleasant and stultifying to work in as a very low temperature.
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The system has a most unfortunate way of stultifying progress in our domestic policy.
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We found that this particular provision had a stultifying effect when agreements were coming before us.
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The whole planning procedure is extremely complex, and it is stultifying, and as it is presently operated it is inhibiting and slowing down.
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But the case is a general one, the stultifying effect of uncurbed direct taxation on creative energy and economic effort.
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