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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The song opens with Battle fighting against the drudgery of his nine-to-five job.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
People who ignore or undervalue prompting will remain trapped in the drudgery of manual operations, where data points must be located and assembled.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
But for Liu, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California, AI’s ability to perform this drudgery is beside the point.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
You’ll root for the characters to vanquish him only because then the drudgery might finally end.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025
Miss Preston was convinced that the best way to correct minor misconduct was a little drudgery, and housework was the pinnacle of drudge.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
