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thankless task
noun as in dirty work
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noun as in donkey work
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noun as in scut work
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Washington termed our endless and thankless task counterinsurgency—and Anbaris made good insurgents, very good insurgents.
Exhorting people to exercise more is a very thankless task that will be, at best, only weakly effective.
Running that gantlet is a thankless task for a centrist candidate in a time of rabid RINO hunting.
Reporting on the U.S. Congress as though it were Broadway would be a thankless task.
The imperial army had to be disbanded—a most unpopular and thankless task, requiring both tact and firmness.
But, if there is a thankless task, it is that of examining the erect image in children from two to three years of age.
It would have been a thankless task to look for a spring at this time of the night in the rain.
Your New Temple would be designed to inculcate the truth upon minds which have already received it; a thankless task.
Professor Serviss is nearer right when he says that converting people to any creed is a thankless task.
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to thankless task, such as: donkey work, grunt work, scut work, and shitwork.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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