drudgery
Usage
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Drudgery suggests continuous, dreary, and dispiriting work, especially of a menial or servile kind: the drudgery of household tasks. Labor particularly denotes hard manual work: backbreaking labor; arduous labor. Toil suggests wearying or exhausting labor: toil that breaks down the worker's health. Work is the general word and may apply to exertion that is either easy or hard: fun work; heavy work.
Example Sentences
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Add to this the pensive Drudgery in Building, and constant grasping Aerial Trowels, distracts and shatters the Mind, and the fond Builder of Babells is often cursed with an incoherent Diversity and Confusion of Thoughts.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Drudgery is plodding, irksome, and often menial work.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
Drill, 52, 63 Drudgery, 218 Education, intellectual, 57, 62; aim of, 143 f.,
From How We Think by Dewey, John
Less Solitary More Comfortable More Attractive Freer from Drudgery Happier and Fuller of Opportunity For the 21,000,000 girls and women on the farms and in the villages!
From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote
He added with equal candour: "Drudgery great, but to an intelligent man the pickings may be considerable."
From Tommy and Grizel by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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