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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In death as in life, the only relief he can find is in the bookkeeping drudgery that has become not just his identity but his very soul.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
People who ignore or undervalue prompting will remain trapped in the drudgery of manual operations, where data points must be located and assembled.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
But it wakes us up to the need for those solutions, and it turns our private drudgery into communal solidarity and gives us back the only commodity that ever really mattered: our time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Enduring the dour drudgery of “Last Rites,” it’s never been clearer that it’s time to give up the ghost.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
You could log in and instantly escape the drudgery of your day-to-day life.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
