soul-sickening, ppl. a.
[f. soul n. 23.]
Extremely depressing or dejecting.
| 1825 J. Wilson Poems ii. 11 One soul-sickening moment of despair. 1854 Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 89 All was squalor and tatters, soul-sickening and disgusting. 1891 Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 5 For diffused, soul-sickening expansiveness, the reek of Calcutta beats both Benares and Peshawur. |