drudgery

[drudg·er·y]

If you’ve ever had to do the laundry, wash the dishes, make the meals, change the bedding, vacuum the house, and clean the bathrooms day after day, you’ve experienced drudgery. Drudgery is hard, mindless, backbreaking work.

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The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

Noun
hard monotonous routine work


n.
The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.


Drudgery

Drudg"er*y , n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
The drudgery of penning definitions.
Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow.
Syn. -- See Toll.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

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Usage Examples

I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

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