Thesaurus / workaday
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Idris Elba cuts a dashing figure even in workaday prison stripes.
THE HARDER THEY FALL FAILS TO MAKE ENOUGH ROOM FOR EACH STAR AMONG ITS STELLAR CASTSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKOCTOBER 6, 2021TIMEIts workaday elements—streets and sidewalks as well as subways and buses—get used, and used hard, by its citizens.
THE CITY THAT ENDURESSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKSEPTEMBER 7, 2021TIMEAt the same time, it’s a grind for the workaday pros who play thousands upon thousands of hands, many of them drawn to Vegas after the government outlawed high-stakes poker websites.
‘PARADISE, NEVADA’ TRIES TO CAPTURE OUR ANXIOUS AMERICAN ESSENCE WITH A COLLISION COURSE THROUGH THE GAMING INDUSTRYPETE TOSIELLOAPRIL 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIt’s purely an attempt to see if they become better at living the workaday parts of their lives when very mildly intoxicated.
I DARE YOU TO NOT BE MOVED BY ANOTHER ROUND, AN EXISTENTIALIST FILM ABOUT DAY DRINKINGALISSA WILKINSONDECEMBER 18, 2020VOXVery often the little ones mimic it in fun, and children's games, most times, are copies of their elders' workaday doings.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCEBut, once at the stair-foot, she threw aside the spell and recovered her sensible and workaday self.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe summer ought not to be an entirely frivolous season, neither ought it to be too workaday.
A GIRL'S STUDENT DAYS AND AFTERJEANNETTE MARKSAnything to give an air of gaiety to the colorless monotony of the workaday life of Lone-Rock.
MARY WARE'S PROMISED LANDANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTONShe wore the workaday costume: a full, dark-brown skirt, the full white bodice, and a little waistcoat or corset.
SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCEThus, without the surrender of any of its traditions, does Fernbridge keep abreast of the movements of this workaday world.
FIBBLE, D. D.IRVIN SHREWSBURY COBBWORDS RELATED TO WORKADAY
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- commonplace
- conventional
- customary
- domestic
- everyday
- frequent
- garden variety
- habitual
- homespun
- household
- humble
- informal
- intimate
- known
- matter-of-fact
- mundane
- native
- natural
- old hat
- ordinary
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- prosaic
- proverbial
- recognizable
- repeated
- routine
- simple
- stock
- unceremonious
- unsophisticated
- usual
- wonted
- workaday
- applied
- both feet on the ground
- businesslike
- commonsensical
- constructive
- doable
- down-to-earth
- efficient
- empirical
- experimental
- factual
- feasible
- functional
- handy
- hard-boiled
- implicit
- in action
- in operation
- matter-of-fact
- nuts and bolts
- operative
- orderly
- possible
- practicable
- pragmatic
- rational
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- sober
- solid
- sound
- systematic
- unidealistic
- unromantic
- usable
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- virtual
- workable
- workaday
- working
- characterless
- common
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- dull
- fair
- familiar
- garden
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- indifferent
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- mean
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- no great shakes
- normal
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- plastic
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- so-so
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- vanilla
- white-bread
- workaday
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- both feet on the ground
- businesslike
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- constructive
- doable
- down-to-earth
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- empirical
- experimental
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- in action
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- nuts and bolts
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- run-of-the-mill
- so-so
- standard
- stock
- typic
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- vanilla
- white-bread
- wonted
- workaday
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