How To Use Drudge In A Sentence
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It sounds like a total drudge, to be fair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
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I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent
The Decameron
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Isolation, loneliness, and the sheer drudgery of running a pioneer household - from sunup to sundown, without a single day's rest - has worn away at their resolve.
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He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career.
Joseph Haydn
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Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?
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A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge.
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The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise.
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The labouring poor of Shakespeare's London, deformed by drudgery, illness, and accident, tormented by vermin, illiterate and unregenerate, must have presented a certain Calibanesque aspect.
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The small drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again.
A Little Princess
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Bobbytoo says: drudge is not worth the time I am taking to write this response
Think Progress » Drudge’s Slime and Weave
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The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders
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Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
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One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
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All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
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I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism.
Times, Sunday Times
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I feel like a real drudge — I've done nothing but clean all day!
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Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
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Had he planned to rescue Alex from the life of drudgery that was all he could look forward to?
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It gives a real insight into the sheer drudgery and misery behind pop success.
The Sun
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He drudges daily with no hope of bettering himself.
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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
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he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
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Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch.
USATODAY.com - Nets sweep road set from Pistons
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We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
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Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent
The Decameron
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All of this was blissful time out from the routine drudgery.
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But the elimination of drudgery does not end there for people dubbed ‘service junkies’.
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Hey but the lying website drudge is trying to say that one of Obama's supporters bit the finger off one of the good old boys, paid and bought by the republicans and the health and drug companies.
Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer
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One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles.
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The Traveller, 'walking up hill bridle in hand,' overtakes 'a poor woman; 'the image, as such commonly are, of drudgery and scarcity;
The French Revolution
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Expect all of the talk radio clowns to begin smearing Huckabee as often as Matt Drudge has recently.
Archive 2007-12-01
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Anyway, she started secretly treating drudges at night after she learned that most infirmaries consist of a first-aid kit and a supply of heavy sedatives.
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One of the strangest effects of the introduction of machinery into industry is that instead of liberating the human powers and initiative of workers from mechanical drudgery, it has often tended to devitalize and warp these forces to the functions of machines. [
Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls
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Or it may simply be that dads would rather stay at the office, where everybody behaves like a grown up, than go home to the squirminess and bodily fluid-filled drudgery of family life.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
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All the drudgeries of routine existence fell away and life, for a moment, was all new hopes and possibilities.
The Sun
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The wife assisted him in the details of business, darned his hose, drudged at the wash-tub, took care of other people's children for hire, and generously gave him whatever money she earned and could spare beyond her actual expenses.
Jack London's Parentage
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An eye catching assistant often relieves the magician from the drudgery of bamboozlement.
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Our weekends were jewels, sparkling brilliantly amidst the lonely drudgery of the rest of my week.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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As I write this, on Wednesday afternoon, news surfaced on The Drudge Report that "the Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit.
More Censorship
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Jesting at himself he defined 'lexicographer' as 'a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. '
A History of English Literature
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His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification ofwords.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
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The Have It All supermum has turned into the Do It All drudge.
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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The stereotypical gobbler of romantic novels was the suburban housewife, who used fables on passionate love as an escape from the bored drudgery and emotional pragmatism of real life.
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I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes.
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I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Drudge used to write for the world nut daily and the national enquirer, right?
Think Progress » Conservatives Falsely Claim New Obama Nuke Policy Prevents Nuclear Retaliation Against Chem/Bio Attack
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If woman be the weaker creature, why is she employed in laborious avocations? why compelled to endure the fatigue of household drudgery; to scrub, to scower, to labour, both late and early, while the powdered lacquey only waits at the chair, or behind the carriage of his employer?
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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The 6th is concerned with drudgery and labour and holds no promise of advancement.
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Mark had been raised with farm horses, slaving for the uncle who grudged him house-room and food, and he still rode farm fashion, inelegant but durable, now that the bishop's stable had provided him a fine tall gelding in place of a plodding farm drudge.
His Disposition
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Their primary option for escape from drudgery at home is to take a job - where they do more work.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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The drama, bravery and human endeavour involved in the prize ring seems to inspire authors beyond the common drudgery of your average sports biography and this is no exception.
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A drudger gets a darg, and a drucken wife the drucken penny.
The Proverbs of Scotland
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Rain can transform the most pleasant task into drudgery.
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Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration.
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Music offers an escape from the drudgery of camp life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bozo The Neoclown says: hey pattycakes, other than the poofter drudge, you have any concrete proof?
Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 16, 2010
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He drudges daily with no hope of bettering himself.
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And while that is clearly progress, I fear we may simply be swapping one class of exploited drudges for another, as more and more double - income couples ease their hectic schedules by engaging hired help.
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Of course this whole business would always rob what should've been a dramatic meteorological occasion of all excitement, replacing it with drudgery and a feeling of having our enjoyment of the thunder and lightning compromised by archetypal fussy mumsiness.
Siren sounds
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McConnell has drudged up few novel stories from Rwanda of his own, discovering few, if any, truly riveting critiques of the current president, the state or its people that have not previously been reported.
Pia Sawhney: Blaming the Messenger: A Response to 'One Man's Rwanda' by Tristan McConnell
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
The Symphony of Supper-Time
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Drudge has covered this hurricane with such passion and fervor, I'm thinking the guy has a bit of a fetish.
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What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and drudgery.
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Over the course of the week I spent with Marcon, I was drawn into the slavish drudge work that haute cuisine demands.
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Though his club, as do most, pay petrol expenses, the drudgery of driving along dark glens in the depths of winter is a serious test of his commitment.
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Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery.
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This flexibility has the added benefit of breaking up any sense of endless routine or day in day out drudgery .
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I feel like a real drudge — I've done nothing but clean all day!
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His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
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Labor - saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.
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This would release humankind from the drudgery of wage-slavery and release the latent talents of 3 billion people.
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A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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When a worker is burnt, it's a reminder that the workday drudgery, for Dad, could be fatal.
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At the prospect of spending the rest of her life in this cycle of inhuman drudgery, suicide became a genuine consideration.
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And Tildy was content to be the unwooed drudge if Aileen could receive the flattery and the homage.
The Four Million
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It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges.
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Cilizza dreams of being drudge, because of the so-called drudge influence.
Overstating Drudge's Influence For Fun And Profit
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Either Drudge is a tease, or I'm just too-outcast hip for my own good sometimes.
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He drudges daily with no hope of bettering himself.
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While her work isn't lifesaving or demanding in the way that a doctor's or an attorney's is, CNBC's ‘Money Honey’ works like a drudge, much harder than a cub reporter at a big newspaper, much much harder than most TV newspeople.
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The third and most unusual of his talents is an eye for the lustre among the manifold drudgeries of research.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don’t understand why anyone expects us to love the drudgery of parenting and treat it like a sacred rite, as if admitting we’re sick to death of playing a game with our kids or doing laundry or sitting through a painful playdate is somehow a moral failure on our part.
Mom At Work | Her Bad Mother
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There is a groundswell of anger against this miserable attempt to turn children into deskbound drudges.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had, when young for English public life, attained to high office; but -- partly from a great distaste to the drudgery of administration; partly from a pride of temperament, which unfitted him for the subordination that a Cabinet owes to its chief; partly, also, from a not uncommon kind of epicurean philosophy, at once joyous and cynical, which sought the pleasures of life and held very cheap its honours -- he had obstinately declined to re-enter office, and only spoke on rare occasions.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
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Natasha works in retail, and attempts to find meaning and significance in the daily drudgery of life.
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Most British workers eagerly look forward to their customary summer holidays to get away from everyday working drudgery.
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I am a disappointed drudge, sir.
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The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine.
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They were necessary drudges, to be kept firmly in their subordinate places.
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With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.
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Travel can be an escape from the routine drudgery of life.
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Life sure is going to change for the stayers when they realise that all the ordinary people in drudgery jobs will have bailed out.
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The contents break, shatter, explode, leak and escape, usually in the way most damning of the innocent drudge attempting to sort them.
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According to Drudge, the article exposes several demonstrably provable factual inaccuracies in Brock's book.
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The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home.
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I rose and dressed, then descended to the kitchens to surprise the drudges brewing the first of the many urns of klah.
Artichoke
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He acted as bear-leader and buffoon, villain and hero, alternately in public; while in private he was cook, drudge, messman, and menagerie manager for the rest of the party, for animals of some sort invariably formed part of the attractions of the troupe.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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Besides that, this thing is being ran on the drudge which is like foxnews of the internet.
NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly'
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People marvel that anyone could ever have done it at all, and describe the work as "drudgery" and "backbreaking" - which may be true - the guys digging the outhouses may well have hated it, and may well have preferred their new jobs, unloading pallets at Walmart to digging outhouses.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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But life itself becomes a bore, a drudge, a grind.
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Their endless domestic drudgery made a sham of the notion that women had the time and energy for the "higher things of life.
America Past and Present
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Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like.
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The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge.
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At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him.
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Since Limbaugh left the show, his spot has been filled by several guest hosts, including Tony Snow, Walter Williams and Matt Drudge.
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They're the rummest lot of scrubs you ever saw -- stupid drudges who live round in all sorts of holes and don't amount to anything.
The Cost
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I started with the usual suspects: CNN, MSNBC, Drudge, the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, and a few of the newsier blogs.
AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE
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My long weekend is nearly over and then it is back to the drudgery of the workplace.
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I was worse than a drudge or a doormat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Derived from robota, the Czech noun for “drudgery” or “toil,” the word came with its own special resonances from Old Church Slavonic, the oldest written Slavic language, and a venerable relative of Czech, Polish, and Russian.
The English Is Coming!
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The moment, however, he published in octavo volumes a solid history, and appended to the bottom of each page the obscure authorities on which his narrative was founded, and which plainly exhibited the capacity of the brilliant declaimer to perform all the austerest duties of the drudge, his reputation marvellously increased among the most frigid and most exacting dispensers of praise.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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In the age of Drudge and various anti-Drudges, if you have dirt on a political opponent, you make sure it gets out.
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Drudge bills this story as a denial, but it isn't quite.
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Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
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Granted, pawing through endless filthy stacks of cheesy Disney tie-ins and bios of teeny bopper stars from ten years ago can get a little depressing, but the drudge is worth it when coming across that rare gem.
Cheap Thrill: Children’s Books 1957-69 : Scrubbles.net
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At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years.
My Contemporaries In Fiction
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Ash is a star player, one of the best in her field, escaping from the realities of life's drudgery into the confines of this hi-tech wargame.
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In so doing, it distracts its members from the drudgery and privation of daily organizational life.
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In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them.
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How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table?
Archive 2008-05-01
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A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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If you know the word lexicographer, there’s a better-than-even chance you also know Samuel Johnson’s self-mocking definition of it: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths (Pt 4):
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
Archive 2008-10-01
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Napolitano, who doesn't think Drudge "means the nickname kindly" said at a recent Politico event that Drudge is wrong in describing DHS programs as Orwellian and that "the privacy impact of new airport screening technology and similar programs are thoroughly vetted before they are implemented," in
Forbes.com: News
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As women become liberated from domestic drudgery, are they in danger of losing something fundamental?
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A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.
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The media quickly picked up the vibe; from the very beginning he was portrayed as a drudge, a hack, a bore and, therefore, a loser.
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The drudge was the best thing that ever happened to my campaign.
Deception Point
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Being closeted within the four walls of the kitchen amid pots, pans and ladles, dishing out culinary delicacies for family, friends and relatives need not always be drudgery.
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Thus graff or grough is compounded of grave and rough; and trudge from tread or trot, and drudge.
A Grammar of the English Tongue
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There was a debate in another post the other day about what to do about all the 'Drudge Drones' that were 'infesting' this site.
In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film
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Because she is not, she must lanch personal attacks and whisper Rovian style to Matt Drudge: Desperate, mean and dishonest.
Hillary: Logic Behind Vote For Obama Or Edwards Is Same As Logic Behind Vote For Bush
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She was living a hole - and - corner existence of daily drudgery.
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There will be no toil, assignments, chores, no drudgery or daily efforts.
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For almost a century scientists have used puzzles to study what they call insight thinking, the leaps of understanding that seem to come out of the blue, without the incremental drudgery of analysis.
NYT > Home Page
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A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
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In fine, The Gentry are very Rich, live of all Men the most careless and contented Lives, keeping the Poor as Drudges and Slaves for them; and as it is said of the Tyrant _Polycrates_, _Have nothing to trouble them, but that they are troubled with nothing_.
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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To a man of true genius drudgerya school a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen.
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It will be necessary to "spank" the Palin/Beck/Limbaugh/Drudge forces back into the submission of reason.
Matthew Anderson: Third Party, Party
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Her statement — about a former lover who, she claimed, had abused her (distinct from her former husband, whom she regularly and epically ranted about), and who somehow, in her mind, seemed now interchangeable with O.J. — released first to the Drudge Report and then reprinted in Murdoch’s New York Post, among other places, was not unreminiscent of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski’s manifesto.
The Trouble with Judith
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Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
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Set in the increasingly unmedieval world of Pern (the Pernese become more computer-literate the more ancient spaceships they discover), the books, particularly the earliest in the series, are jaw-droppingly misogynistic and generally joyless, heavy on drinks called "klah" and drudges wearing excremental colours.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
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Nor they do not set drudges and slaves awork about it.
The Second Book. Of Warfare
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Indeed, clanging bells offered some exhilaration to counter the drudgery of life spent in the fields.
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It's typical of what Drudge had been running till yesterday, though, scavenging far and wide to find some oddball outlier poll, then liberally pissing his trowsers in odiferous excitement over his banner-headline "discovery.
CBS/NYT Poll: Obama Winning Big -- If New Voters Turn Out
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She looks appalled when I suggest that there is an element of drudgery to the work.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, he defined "lexicographer" as "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
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Only in an art gallery could anyone get away with such drudgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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My reason is that the removal of the time-consuming and tiring drudgery has produced a paradox.
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Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days?
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There's also the drudgery of pushing her pram around and standing in the cold by rickety old swings.
The Sun
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For those who are clicking from FiveThirtyEight to Politico to Drudge and back again vainly searching for fresh information on Tuesday’s elections, there’s good news: Web sites like Twitter and YouTube are providing real-time updates from the polls, voter by voter.
Taking the Digital Pulse of Voters, One at a Time - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Is your house riven by arguments over the domestic drudgery?
Times, Sunday Times
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The small drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again.
A Little Princess
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They are filled with horror and compassion at the sight of poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes, and brutifying their sublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremitting labour.
Famous Reviews
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All of us need something to poetize and idealise our life a little - something which we value for more than its use and which is a symbol of our emancipation from the mere materialism and deathly drudgery of daily life.
Great Regulars: All of us in India seem to be passing through
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Schieffer concluded by wondering if, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama is finding the presidency to be a "splendid misery" and quoting Jefferson, who once said "the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing drudgery and a daily loss of friends," commiserated: "Have you lost any friends yet?
MRC Latest Headlines
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In a few minutes afterwards, the two Peters were seen moving through the Parliament Close (which new-fangled affectation has termed a Square), the triumphant Drudgeit leading captive the passive Peebles, whose legs conducted him towards the dramshop, while his reverted eyes were fixed upon the court.
Redgauntlet
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A cruder lover of power might tyrannize over a drudge, but Lorelei is an epicure.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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For mums it was the era of the cheap washing machine that would free them from drudgery.
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After 20 years of drudgery to pay off the loan, she bumps into her rich friend and finally confesses the truth, only to be told that the lost necklace was a fake.
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In a bit of jiujutsu, Douglass than uses the video record from a recent AARP forum where, contra Drudge, Obama stresses that "nobody is trying to change what works in the system.
White House Takes on Drudge, Others "with a Computer and a Lot of Free Time"
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His local knowledge, active disposition, and subservient industry, render him an useful kind of drudge to any prevailing party, and, since the overthrow of the Brissotines, he has been entrusted with the government of this and some of the neighbouring departments.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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Women's domestic lives were sheer drudgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Travel can be an escape from the routine drudgery of life.
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Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
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Others live on as hard-working priests or clerical drudges, or as the family man next door or at the next desk.
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Given EC’s ridiculous statements re: Austrian economics and his frequent pompous condescension one must regard his writings as a mixed blessing (he often does hit the mark and he could outscoop Drudge at times).
Protesting HCR 362 at Nancy Pelosi’s House « Antiwar.com Blog
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Five drudges, two of them women in such grimy brown-gray rags that F'lar hoped they had had nothing to do with the preparation of the meal, staggered in under the emplattered herdbeast.
DragonFlight
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The small drudge before the grate swept the hearth once and then swept it again.
A Little Princess
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Therefore, I maintain that capacity for work, and even drudgery, is among the essentials of story-telling.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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For these people, a management role which involves administrative drudgery is both a refuge, and a means for advancing one's career to a higher salary scale.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment.
The Warden
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The invention of the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine transformed not just daily domestic drudgery, but the layout of our homes as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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In more modern times, thanks to Betty Friedan and her followers, housecleaning is deemed total drudgery and demeaning work -- something that evidently should be relegated to the untouchable class of India.
January Organizing and Housecleaning
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Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day.
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Drudge has covered this hurricane with such passion and fervor, I'm thinking the guy has a bit of a fetish.
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The “AI” approach is so positive it makes the other methods seem to wallow in drudgery of the problems.
Walking with the Poor: a review
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I was worse than a drudge or a doormat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even Roxy expressed her pleasure in seeing "things kind of spruced up," and Merry's gentle treatment of the hard-working drudge won her heart entirely.
Jack And Jill
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By chance an opportunity had presented itself to escape from the drudgery he dreaded.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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“In troth, not I,” said the patient drudge, “unless it may be when she is a wee fashious about washing her laces; but I have been her keeper since she was a bairn, neighbour Suddlechop, and that makes a difference.”
The Fortunes of Nigel
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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There are many farmers, crofters etc, who would be only too willing to sell their land at £6,000 an acre to rid themselves of the unrewarding drudgery of much current farming in Scotland.
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The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
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They were first class, and they gave it up to work in drudge jobs that took them away from their homes and families where they belonged and where their mothers and grandmothers were doing quite well before feminists/marxists spread the lies to convince them they were not free.
The Better Part
