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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But for Liu, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, AI’s ability to perform this drudgery is beside the point.
Restaurants that serve brunch are often chockfull of carousing patrons, happily sipping on the customary brunch libations while the line cooks are falling apart due to drudgery.
From Salon
Believing that baseball’s best lineup could bring home baseball’s biggest trophy has become drudgery.
From Los Angeles Times
They received a comprehensive education in both basketball and drudgery.
From Washington Post
At its center are loss and the difficulties of starting over, the drudgery of survival and the necessity of assimilation.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
