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Definition

hard, unpleasant, and boring work

To me, housework is drudgery.

the drudgery of carefully reading another contract
I work sixty hours a week, but very few feel like drudgery.
He awoke in the morning with a sinking heart because he must go through another day of drudgery.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Before Peter, weight training had always been drudgery; now I was addicted.
Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy

drudgery = hard, unpleasant, and boring work

...the students themselves would be taught to see not only utility in labour, but beauty and dignity; would be taught, in fact, how to lift labour up from mere drudgery and toil, and would learn to love work for its own sake.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

drudgery = hard, unpleasant, and boring work

Official work here was not the stiff, hopeless drudgery that it was in Moscow.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
He would hire two others to do the drudgery and leave her as Mammy-in-chief.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Denisov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
And this is the thanks I get for all my drudgery in my old age," she said, bursting into tears.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
The unpleasantness, the work, the drudgery, it would fall on Thalia.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
I am old, old, very old and never shall be very well—certainly while in this office, for the drudgery of it is too much for my years and strength.
David McCullough -- John Adams
I dress quickly, hoping to get to her before Cook sets us to our daily drudgery.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
All the basic labour-saving devices were in evidence: at least, Jean admitted, there was no danger of reverting to the dark ages of domestic drudgery.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
He had surprised her in her drudgery.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
He did the cooking for the other men in the fort, the dish-washing and the drudgery.
Jack London -- White Fang
They are also days filled with the anxiety and drudgery of being a young mother with your first baby.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
'Actually, I was spared that drudgery,' replied Wadsworth haughtily.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

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