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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Many of the later compositions even lack religious feeling, and seem to have been written as taskwork.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
The vast public structures of the later kings were comparable to the taskwork of the builders of the Egyptian pyramids, and they still strike us with astonishment, and surprise.
From Stories of the Olden Time (Historical Series—Book IV Part I) by Various
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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary
For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly 40Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
And such books as these were part of his spiritual taskwork.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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