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.
But it wakes us up to the need for those solutions, and it turns our private drudgery into communal solidarity and gives us back the only commodity that ever really mattered: our time.
Recent college grads view such drudgery as beneath them and think employers are too demanding.
They come for an escape from the drudgery of daily life, even planning vacations around his concerts.
You’ll root for the characters to vanquish him only because then the drudgery might finally end.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
