scut work

Example Sentences

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He thinks this is partly because AI took so much scut work off people’s plates that their days became consumed by high-level thinking—and they were burning out.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

But it becomes a problem when colleagues regularly have to take on someone else’s scut work or put more thought into fixing a work product than was put into creating it.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

Normally, the vice president gets the scut work, like, say, going to Lorain, Ohio, to talk about the infrastructure law.

From Washington Times • Feb. 22, 2022

General Electric and other efficiency-minded corporations shipped scut work to India, where an educated workforce leapt at salaries a fraction of those paid in New York.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 14, 2015

The inmates kept their eyes down as they did the scut work, emptying ashtrays and wiping the urine from toilets.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover