drudgery
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- noun
- /ˈdrʌdʒəri/
- We have slunk into a technology-induced haze of drudgery and overeating, laziness, and fatigue.
- the drudgery of everyday life
- everyday drudgery
- the drudgery of routine work
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Watch on YouTubeThere are hurdles, there are roadblocks, there's drudgery, there's tedium, there's boredom.
- There are hurdles, there are roadblocks, there's drudgery, there's tedium, there's boredom.
- So what I do to make it through this kind of drudgery is I'm always asking myself if I could be doing something a little bit better.
- He is the archetypal brother who comes to to meet his sister, who is in the mother in laws house undergoing drudgery.
- And nothing in my worldview is in defense of drudgery.
- At least in my upbringing, church was a drudgery.
- Oh, my hand writing is excessive drudgery.
- Sometimes there's jobs because we are mean or because we didn't know better or we couldn't do better, better only toil, drudgery, bullshit.
Examples
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We want them to think of learning as an enjoyable endeavor rather than as drudgery.
Academic text (2007) -
Now the labor is drudgery.
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In one way, she was happy Robert was there because it released her from the drudgery of her work.
Fiction book (1997) -
Freedom from the drudgery of every day life... ...freedom as abstract ideal.
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Spending most of your life on toil and drudgery is no way to live.
Blog text (27) -
There was, doubtless, a sense of emancipation, the drudgery of a daily routine left far behind.
Fiction book (1996) -
Presence transforms our work from drudgery into an occasion of sacrament.
Academic text (1993) -
Student friendships lightened the drudgery of institutional life and the routines and regulations to which students were often subjected.
Academic text (2008) -
Many Apaches drank tiswin as a means to relieve the drudgery of farming.
Academic text (1993) -
After a long week of monotonous tasks, she finally broke free from the drudgery of her office job.
Synonyms
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Work that is tiring and boring and happens every day
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A boring feeling when things are the same again and again
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Boring, simple jobs that are necessary and take a lot of time
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Feeling bored from doing the same thing for a long time
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A boring repetitive situation that feels never-ending
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A boring, tiring routine of everyday work and chores
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Simple unpleasant tasks that no one wants to do
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A feeling that a task is boring because it is long or always the same
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A dull, gloomy feeling that makes things seem not interesting
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A daily pattern of plain unexciting activities like work and chores
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Unpleasant small jobs that no one wants to do
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A boring feeling caused by something that lasts a long time
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A lot of hard, boring work that others avoid but must be done
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Etymology
The word drudgery comes from the simpler word drudge, which means a person who does hard, boring work, plus the ending -ery meaning 'state or quality'. So, drudgery is the 'state of being a drudge', meaning work that is tedious, repetitive, and tiring.