He hated the drudgery of his job.
in the “good old days” household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure
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Treating cooking like drudgery—another chore to perform—will likely not inspire them to adopt this crucial life skill, one that seems to be going by the wayside in the era of GrubHub and DoorDash.—Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025 Simmons spent the time between minicamp and training camp toiling in Kansas City, working to hit the ground running when the drudgery of camp in St. Joseph began.—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025 The better option is to keep the early rungs of career paths intact and let AI strip out the drudgery.—Andrea Hill, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 This erudite and thought-provoking book tackles a dominant issue of the day, and indeed of the last two centuries: whether the forward march of technology promises to free humankind from want and drudgery or instead threatens to enslave and even extinguish human civilization.—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drudgery
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