Sisyphean
of or relating to Sisyphus.
endless and unavailing, as labor or a task.
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How to use Sisyphean in a sentence
This makes “fuels management” a maintenance problem, a Sisyphean chore.
California’s Forever Fire | by Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, photography by Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Magazine | January 3, 2022 | ProPublicaUnless we have the compassion to see housing as a human right and the will pay for it, for millions of children with no agency at all, and millions of mothers who are doing their Sisyphean damndest, the worst is soon to come.
America Could Soon Face a Wave of Single Moms Being Evicted. A Simple Solution Exists That Could Help Them | Lauren Sandler | May 28, 2021 | TimeManaging this complexity manually would be a Sisyphean struggle.
The power of value 4.0 for industrial internet of things | Jason Sparapani | December 22, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewPerhaps even more problematic is that legal enforcement of the policy itself is a Sisyphean task; there is no way it can be done.
The University Of New Orleans’ Cigarette Ban Is Total BS | Chloé Valdary | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTrolling for notes every few months can be a Sisyphean task.
Antonis Samaras: New Greek Prime Minister and Predecessor Share College Ties | Jim Warren | June 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Christian Dior designer Bill Gaytten had a near Sisyphean task in creating a spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection.
Graduating into the Great Recession only added to the sense of Sisyphean striving.
Chrysler nearly escaped its Sisyphean fate, with a hastily arranged “merger of equals” a decade ago, to Daimler-Benz.
One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of “tidying up.”
I was pleased, therefore, to be freed from the Sisyphean labors of the editorial office.
Recollections of a Varied Life | George Cary EgglestonIs the Sisyphean stone of Home Rule, so laboriously rolled uphill, to again roll down, crushing in its fall the faithful rollers?
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)Without some such respite he could never have faced and carried through the almost Sisyphean task which awaited him at daylight.
His Unknown Wife | Louis TracyIt became clear that the zoologists had been attempting a task utterly Sisyphean.
A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams
British Dictionary definitions for Sisyphean
/ (ˌsɪsɪˈfiːən) /
relating to Sisyphus
actually or seemingly endless and futile
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