drudge

I found it distasteful mostly because it was drudge work, as were other tasks such as writing press releases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“It takes away the drudge work,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

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

Anyway, yesterday and the day before they needed someone else to do all these challenging tasks while they found another drudge to replace her.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

When Maryland guard Taylor Mikesell was asked Monday how good it felt to break out of a month-long shooting lull against Indiana, the sophomore drudged up just a few words about her performance.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2020

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

But if the new lines go through for 2026, they could pit long-serving older members of the Texas delegation against younger newcomers, drudging up existing tensions in the Democratic Party over age and seniority.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2025

One fan of the drudging quarterback competition that dominated Denver’s offseason was Jeudy because it helped him focus as he worked to cut down on the dropped passes that plagued him as a rookie.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 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

It’s the same old drudging, frustrating process, no more or less revealing than it’s been in the past—but more important now than ever.

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017

But he was as far as possible from being a drudging money-maker.

From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson