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drudgery

[druhj-uh-ree]

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noun, plural -er·ies.

menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.

Origin:
1540–50; drudge + -ery

Synonyms
See work.

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They are beloved playthings that help break the drudgery of frontline life.

That's what produces the postdoc, five-year drudgery.

Yet among many politicians, a palpable thrill has supplanted the usual drudgery.

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They are beloved playthings that help break the drudgery of frontline life.

That's what produces the postdoc, five-year drudgery.

Yet among many politicians, a palpable thrill has supplanted the usual drudgery.

Drudgery and discomfort aboard ship goes hand-in-hand with the danger.

Writing computer code may now strike many as intellectual drudgery.

We all see those infomercials that try to sell you kitchen gadgets to ease the drudgery of food preparation.

We spend a large percentage of our lives at the office, engaged in the drudgery of work.

One person's idea of drudgery is another's inspiration.

The presidency offers a country a mix of drudgery and real clout.

Rising temperatures created not only drudgery but also danger.

Overlaid on an interactive map, the program can aid emergency response teams and relieve civic drudgery.

Electricity has given so much comfort to womankind, such surcease to her life of drudgery.

Robots were meant to spare man the drudgery of work so he may pursue realms of higher thought, ie to evolve mentally.

But with business success came the unwelcome creep of drudgery and responsibility.

The idea is that you'll wiggle your way to fitness without the drudgery of actual exercise.

History-painting was drudgery as often as not, and all too often it showed.

It is all a far cry from piecing together clues in a country house, or the drudgery of real-life detective work.

Morning runs that had been drudgery felt great, easy, and fast.

It's a place to complain about all the things that make commuting unmitigated drudgery.

And putting the grocery store to work as a sous-chef takes much drudgery out of preparing this, or any other, meal.

Some lawyers think outsourcing will be a blessing, taking away the drudgery and leaving them free to hone their higher skills.

But a few brave souls insist on combating old man winter's drudgery by hitting the streets, no matter how poor the conditions.

Some women feel that housekeeping without it would resolve into the drudgery of our grandmothers' days.

Leading a life of digital drudgery could force a person far into the wooded hills for the sake of sanity.

Jang was freed from the drudgery and became an entrepreneur.

Even once you figure out the mechanism, it's tedious drudgery to catch all the fish that the quests ask you to.

Challenge could be your path out of academic drudgery and into a life free of.

Children at the bottom often face low-wage drudgery or the dole.

Singh, who wanted to escape the drudgery of working as a car service administrator.

With him he brings a society girl, who loves him but firmly declines to suffer the drudgery of a neighborhood doctor's wife.

Hiring committees are largely drudgery for those of us who have served on more than a few.

But it is the details revealing the prosaic drudgery of the crack spy's lot that are really gripping.

It's how drudgery has been removed from lots of tasks.

Something that you view as drudgery may be an interesting challenge for another faculty member.

The cultures presumably serve similar functions, offering an escape from the drudgery of daily life.

Something creative would be more interesting for the students and not be sheer drudgery.

His teachings struck the right balance between big-picture dreaming and detail-oriented drudgery.

If you're a city dweller who sees the same trail of drudgery day after day, buying it is a waste of money.

Second, women need to find husbands who will share domestic drudgery equally:.

The drudgery of medical school and residency is certainly an apt subject for a time-management game.

But filers can avoid some of the drudgery by turning it over to their mobile phones.

But this spring of youth escaping rural drudgery is drying up.

Peterson had strangled or smothered his wife to escape what he viewed as the drudgery of family life so he could live out a.

Stephens, tertiary education is an exercise in drudgery.

But the thrill of playing hooky, and taking off down a slope, somehow made up for the drudgery of.

In the boy's daydreams, his life of drudgery and servitude explodes into phantasmagoric images of women as fairy-tale princesses.

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World English Dictionary

drudgery (ˈdrʌdʒərɪ)

—n , pl -eries
	hard, menial, and monotonous work

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drudgery

1540s, from drudge + -ery.

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