ppl. a. [f. SOUL sb. 22.] Extremely depressing or dejecting.
1825. J. Wilson, Poems, ii. 11. One soul-sickening moment of despair.
1854. Grace 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.
