thankless task

Example Sentences

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Being an executor is often a lonely, time-consuming and thankless task.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

Rowland commits to the thankless task of playing a smart woman gone stupid.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024

So some agents are handing that thankless task to machines.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

So, getting inside the mind of the Kremlin leader is a pretty thankless task.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

Instead, Nana had endured the shame of bearing a harami, had shaped her life around the thankless task of raising Mariam and, in her own way, of loving her.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini