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drudgery

[ UK /dɹˈʌd‍ʒɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹədʒɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. hard monotonous routine work

How To Use drudgery In A Sentence

  • Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
  • 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.
  • The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism. Times, Sunday Times
  • Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
  • Had he planned to rescue Alex from the life of drudgery that was all he could look forward to?
  • It gives a real insight into the sheer drudgery and misery behind pop success. The Sun
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