drudgery
menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
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How to use drudgery in a sentence
Rather, they hope to speed up programming and remove some of the drudgery.
OpenAI’s Codex Translates Everyday Language Into Computer Code | Jason Dorrier | August 15, 2021 | Singularity HubIn the past year, there has been a tendency to blame our tiredness on the drudgery of living through a pandemic — the persistent fear, the loneliness, the grief and the locked-down days that bleed one into another.
Everyone is tired. We need to give ourselves an actual break. | Christine Emba | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostIn postwar Britain, a weariness with rationing and austerity helps to explain women’s delight in transformations and the idea of release from domestic drudgery.
What the Rise and Fall of the Cinderella Fairy Tale Means for Real Women Today | Carol Dyhouse | April 19, 2021 | TimeTrusting that work to a robot means saving a human from drudgery on the best of days, and from tragedy on the worst ones.
Elvis (the helicopter) is cheating death by becoming a drone | Kelsey Atherton | March 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe idea that fame could be an escape—from drudgery, dues-paying and, in no small number of workplaces, abuse—predates Instagram by at least a century.
What HBO’s Fake Famous Doesn’t Understand About Young People and Influencer Culture | Judy Berman | February 4, 2021 | Time
We coo over how cute our cat is and minimize the drudgery of cleaning the litter box.
Is it right to speak of “finding meaningful work” when available work might necessarily involve drudgery and worse?
College Must Be More Than Just a Classy Trade School | Michael S. Roth | August 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis single invention liberated countless millions from needless drudgery.
That is said with zero disrespect for the hard work, and often drudgery, that those jobs entail.
Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Steady, but There’s Underlying Trouble | Zachary Karabell | March 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFor many Afghan women, a life of violence, drudgery and ill health is the best they can expect.
Will Fawzia Koofi Be Afghanistan's First Female President? | Fawzia Koofi | January 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA world that has known five years of fighting has lost its taste for the honest drudgery of work.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockPractice lends me great dexterity in the work, but the hours of drudgery drag with heavy heel.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanHe was of a white color, that seemed to fit him rather for rare festal occasions than for constant drudgery.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterAnd with every day of such drudgery the heights of music and literature seemed further away and more unattainable.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairAll drudgery disappears in a rosy glow of unexpected, unique, and stimulating conditions.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland | Kate Douglas Wiggin
British Dictionary definitions for drudgery
/ (ˈdrʌdʒərɪ) /
hard, menial, and monotonous work
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