as in labor
very hard or unpleasant work
in the "good old days" household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure
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Recent Examples of drudgery
That was misery, sorrow, drudgery, give me some other adjectives there.
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Super Cruise will relieve you of the drudgery of long-distance driving and get you there with a lot less stress.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
But this wasn’t a life of drudgery; Gussow was at the theater five or six nights a week, often taking his son Ethan with him.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
Imagine having a personal assistant who never sleeps, or a guru who transforms any drudgery into an easily manageable task within an instant.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for drudgery
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Super Cruise will relieve you of the drudgery of long-distance driving and get you there with a lot less stress.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
But this wasn’t a life of drudgery; Gussow was at the theater five or six nights a week, often taking his son Ethan with him.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 27 Dec. 2024
Imagine having a personal assistant who never sleeps, or a guru who transforms any drudgery into an easily manageable task within an instant.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for drudgery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drudgery
Noun
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The subpoenas seek documents related to labor negotiations and depositions from Stacy Davis Gates, CTU’s president and Jackson Potter, the union’s vice president.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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To obtain government assistance before bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler in 2009, the union and the companies had to agree to additional labor cost savings and massive corporate restructuring, which continued into bankruptcy.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And yet, from the ACLU to the Washington Post and the New York Times, the institutional guardians of the Left made a concerted effort to cede those causes to the mosh posh of crunchy anti-war peaceniks, classical conservatives, frat bros, and ordinary Americans who make up MAGA.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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The shift marks a continued effort by USPS to cut costs without significantly disrupting mail delivery for most Americans.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Traven Sharon stalked the center mat at Ball Arena Saturday night with two letters and a number, faded by sweat and toil — BB1 — scribbled on the outside of his left shoe.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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Too much mainstream music now sees itself as a refuge from real-world toils.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Then, Trump went on to insult every man woman and child in the United States by making light of the impact of slavery on our nation’s history.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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At the end of the day, African American culture goes back to slavery and our ancestors.—
DeMarco Williams,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The gyms are experiencing their first round of celebrity sweat, and local stores sell fresh juices and overpriced lattes.—
Shikhar Sachdev,
thehustle.co,
21 Feb. 2025
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Like Kim, each won reelection in 2024 without breaking too much of a sweat, but these GOP lawmakers in an unfavorable political environment could become major Democratic targets.—
David Mark,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The symptoms of fatigue may be masked temporarily — Red Bull helps — but, alas, they cannot be reversed.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Symptoms may start days or weeks after consuming the bacteria and can include fever, muscle aches and fatigue.—
Katherine Dillinger,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Lombard said learning about the everyday grind of the baseball season opened his eyes.—
Brendan Kuty,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article Heading into a top-10 nonconference battle with South Carolina on Sunday, UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma knew that returning to the grind of Big East play after the high-octane matchup would be a challenging task, win or lose.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Drudgery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drudgery. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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