noun
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hard or unpleasant work
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a rare word for piecework
Etymology
Origin of taskwork
Example Sentences
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Scratched table, desks, copybooks, and worn grammars, had more the air of a comfortable occupation than of the shabby haunt of irksome taskwork.
From The Young Step-Mother by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Even to the lamentable taskwork of bad comic engravings for dead and putrescent “Wit’s Magazines” his biographer has tracked him and taken note of his doings.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the midst of all the hardships of his younger time, as afterwards in the midst of crushing Herculean taskwork, he was saved from moral ruin by the inexhaustible geniality and expansiveness of his affections.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
A dull coarse web her small life seems made of; but even from its taskwork, which is undertaken for childhood itself, there are glittering threads cast across its woof and warp of care.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
For I worked at work that I liked, and did no taskwork.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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