Drudgery
['drʌdʒərɪ] or ['drʌdʒəri]
Definition
(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hard or toilsome work, ignoble toil, mean labor.
Checked by Horatio
Examples
- And I should never succeed in anything by dint of drudgery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The extreme form of this subordination, namely drudgery, offers a clew. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is now possible, by means of electric appliances, practically to eliminate all drudgery from housework. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She hated needle-drudgery herself, and she would bring her hose, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is a picture of hopeless drudgery and blank ignorance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We have already laid stress on the vast elimination of drudgery from human life through the creation of a new race of slaves, the machines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And even for the individual worker, the convenient appliances and helps that have been invented have greatly relieved the occupation of pain and drudgery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Every suggestion which turns work from a drudgery to a craft is worth our deepest interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He would not drop the work, and while highly appreciative of the proposed honor, let it go by rather than quit for a week or two the stern drudgery of probing for the fact and the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I glanced towards the centre of the room, where Miss Jellyby's lover, now engaged with single pupils, was undergoing greater drudgery than ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This machine is said to be the final step in relieving bookkeeping of its drudgery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But the drudgery and monotony of this work would not down in his mind. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Drudgery of Ancient Times Relieved by Modern Inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But these solemn lessons which succeeded those, I remember as the death-blow of my peace, and a grievous daily drudgery and misery. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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