drudge

Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

It will leave the impression that as brilliant and accomplished as you are, you will not be a drudge.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2022

It’s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

In his line of work, the requirements of the season can at times seem like a drudge.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Miss Preston was convinced that the best way to correct minor misconduct was a little drudgery, and housework was the pinnacle of drudge.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

The 40-year-old pop star and her attorney Mathew Rosengart have taken legal action against her father Jamie and sister Jamie Lynn as the court battle regarding her 13-year conservatorship drudges on.

From Fox News ● Jan. 19, 2022

To meet kind intentions with the suggestion that your wife’s friends become drudges because you choose not to handle the simple tasks of everyday life both insults them and reveals a great deal about you.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

Even as the state of the economy began to improve, companies found they couldn’t shake their reliance on free labour; it was too easy to skimp by relying on a steady stream of unpaid drudges.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2018

They’re not the defense-first drudges they became under coach Darryl Sutter, but they’ve also learned that having freedom to be creative offensively and actually scoring aren’t connected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2018

She was sure her father would be horrified—she and Charlie drudges on someone else’s place.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

As I had drudged on with Cathy, I thought back to the infamous Nigerian prince scam, the great phishing attempt that seemingly defined the early internet.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Literally, as a snowstorm of historic proponents hit the Big Apple, and our intrepid Midge drudged forward resolutely and inappropriately dressed.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2023

Taillon also drudged through his previous start, allowing six runs over 5 2/3 innings against Houston in a game New York came back to win 7-6.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

As the bout drudged on, both fighters appeared to start getting gassed.

From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021

While de Vries was still knee-deep in the study of plant hybrids in the spring of 1900, a friend sent him a copy of an old paper drudged up from the friend’s library.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Those efforts all have something in common: They use software to take on drudging tasks like transcribing and initial data-gathering so that journalists have more time to do more intensive reporting.

From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2023

Hart described how this "tired gimmick" of drudging up a victim's drug history was also used in the deaths Trayvon Martin, Terence Crutcher, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald and many others.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2022

For much of training camp, the QB clash was a drudging one in which neither passer strung together stellar performances from one day to the next, and sometimes not even from one drill to another.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

The defense tried to discredit Constand and the other women, attacking their credibility and drudging up their past misbehaviors.

From The Verge ● Apr. 26, 2018

However breathless and hurried it made one's female relations in its upper reaches, and drudging in its lower, the very highest?

From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim