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workaday
[ wur-kuh-dey ]
adjective
- of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- ordinary; commonplace; everyday; prosaic.
workaday
/ ˈwɜːkəˌdeɪ /
adjective
- being a part of general human experience; ordinary
- suitable for working days; everyday or practical
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Idris Elba cuts a dashing figure even in workaday prison stripes.
Its workaday elements—streets and sidewalks as well as subways and buses—get used, and used hard, by its citizens.
At the same time, it’s a grind for the workaday pros who play thousands upon thousands of hands, many of them drawn to Vegas after the government outlawed high-stakes poker websites.
It’s purely an attempt to see if they become better at living the workaday parts of their lives when very mildly intoxicated.
Even typically Teflon partners will melt if you apply too much heat in workaday dealings.
But unlike most workaday reporters, Lepore is steeped in the history of the city and the American Revolution.
And it divides an audience's attention from the quotidian, workaday world, whether at the Globe or the Delacorte.
Very often the little ones mimic it in fun, and children's games, most times, are copies of their elders' workaday doings.
But, once at the stair-foot, she threw aside the spell and recovered her sensible and workaday self.
The summer ought not to be an entirely frivolous season, neither ought it to be too workaday.
Anything to give an air of gaiety to the colorless monotony of the workaday life of Lone-Rock.
She wore the workaday costume: a full, dark-brown skirt, the full white bodice, and a little waistcoat or corset.
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