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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
- ...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
- 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
drudgery = hard, unpleasant, and boring work
drudgery = hard, unpleasant, and boring work
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