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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Drudgery, he tells us, is the secret of all culture.
From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)
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
A third time and heartily I say it,—"Blessed be Drudgery!"
From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell
Drudgery has so largely been removed that it is probably true that there is no more “hack-work” or dull routine in agriculture than in other lines of business.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by Fiske, George Walter
Urged by despair and by hope, what can Drudgery do, but rise, as predicted, and produce the General Overturn?
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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