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drudgery

noun as in hard, tedious work

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Example Sentences

It provides relief from life’s hardships, drudgery, and setbacks.

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Desperate for a break from office drudgery but scared of not making ends meet?

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However, while Ms Teevan will long remember that specific work meeting, for most of us such gatherings with colleagues can be drudgery.

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The maze of dead-end interviews, the drudgery of temporary gigs and the tumultuous nature of making a living as a writer don’t feel so bad anymore.

Mothers have long been served fantasies about how robots will relieve the drudgery of housework.

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What are other ways to say drudgery?

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. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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