stultifying
The band’s belligerent interpretations and anarchic performances of traditional songs served as an antidote to the stultification of folk music by purists.
The simplicity of the language and the ritual-like repetition can, if not directed with absolute conviction, lead easily to banality and stultification.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Deteriorating and making worse
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Preventing and impeding
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