thankless task
Example Sentences
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It’s the kind of thankless task many professors would flee from, but Boyagoda relished the prospect and thinks the group, which is ongoing, made progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Miyamoto has a similar humble but thankless task she’d want help with.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
Czar or otherwise, the job was a daunting, thankless task.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
Despereaux's brothers and sisters soon abandoned the thankless task of trying to educate him in the ways of being a mouse.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
