soul-destroying

It must needs be a land-destroying, and soul-destroying sin, to be a covenant-breaker.

So these heathen systems have their grain of truth, but they are false and soul-destroying all the same.

There is no despotism on earth so soul-destroying to the artist: it is baser and more degrading than anything known in Russia.

Multitudes of people of all classes are believers in this soul-destroying doctrine.