c1630 (1936) ii. 51 Wher's this heart dullinge Trashe, this money?
1898 A. Ollivant i. iv. 41 That is at any time a heart-dulling tramp: over the Silver Lea, up the never-ending Pass, [etc.].
1979 94 479/1 His response to the mind- and heart-dulling ‘mœurs de province’ spares neither men nor women.