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drudgery
[druhj-uh-ree]
noun
plural
drudgeriesmenial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
drudgery
/ ˈʌəɪ /
noun
hard, menial, and monotonous work
Example Sentences
“That’s Jazz Baby!” from Spies Among Us, the team behind a long-running Little Tokyo tale of espionage, found similar lifelessness in corporate drudgery, this time in a jazz nightclub.
These change agents have also been acting as a source of hope and aspiration for young workers who face precarity and the drudgery of routinized work.
Under Shell's control, it became a successful weekly guide to women who found themselves in charge of both a household and a budget to outsource the daily drudgery to the lower classes.
Employees at biotech conglomerate Lumon Industries are offered the company's pioneering severance programme, a concept inspired by series creator Dan Erickson's desire to escape the mind-numbing drudgery of his office jobs.
This show, though, transforms familiar drudgery into fantasy.
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