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.
Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, says AI can take "the drudgery" out of mundane jobs such as office administration.
From BBC
But Belafonte was making a statement by opening an album with a work song about backbreaking drudgery.
From New York Times
During his daytime drudgery, Pershing discovers that the New Republic is destroying perfectly useful, salvageable equipment and technology simply because it used to be Imperial property.
From Salon
Even if he were in fact profoundly lazy, as Ebb insisted and Kander does not deny, composing is hardly drudgery for him.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
