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.
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Plastic, prefabrication and push-button convenience suggested that mass production could bring elegant, futuristic living — and freedom from drudgery — within reach of the masses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Entry-level jobs typically involve a fair amount of drudgery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
AI, which was once promised as a tool to eliminate drudgery, has complicated daily life in myriad ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
The song opens with Battle fighting against the drudgery of his nine-to-five job.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Should I not have praised Him for the liberty to open doors and pass through them, for the escape from drudgery, and most, my mother’s hand to hold?
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
But Roth is concerned that some patients may be so eager to escape the drudgeries of dialysis that they are willing to accept a sub-par kidney.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2020
I loved these tales of going up in these famous fighters and bombers on test runs, of the camaraderie on base, even the drudgeries of guard duty or rushing to breakfast in the mess.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2020
“Welfare” evokes poverty as a trial of rote drudgeries.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019
Made me invincible to the drudgeries of working in advertising and the ever-present Void of living in general.”
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2018
We tend to count the diseases conquered, the planets explored, the drudgeries banished, and to assert that the greater good is served by seeing things our way.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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