0 A soul-destroying job or other activity is so boring that it makes you very unhappy. -- （工作等）非常枯燥的，消耗精神的
Men—good honest trustworthy men—are leaving the railways every week in large numbers, all because of this soul-destroying system of remote control.
What is the more soul-destroying—being a hen in a battery complex or being a worker on a car production line?
Nothing is more soul-destroying than that, and probably the hen would choose to be in a pen rather than on such a production line.
I detest unemployment, which is soul-destroying and wasteful.
No matter how criminal a man may be, can he possibly merit such soul-destroying punishment?
Unemployment is bad enough at any time, but it must be soul-destroying for anyone to begin his adult life living on the dole.
We realise that unemployment is a human tragedy and a social evil and that it is soul-destroying and creates resentment.
They knew that it would be an unpopular and a soul-destroying business.
