Drudgery
noun
Boring, difficult, or harsh work that takes a long time and seems to never end.
She left her corporate job to avoid the drudgery of nine to five work.
Often appears as...
- daily drudgery
- mundane drudgery
noun
Boring, difficult, or harsh work that takes a long time and seems to never end.
She left her corporate job to avoid the drudgery of nine to five work.
Often appears as...
- daily drudgery
- mundane drudgery
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
Use 'drudgery' to express a strong negative feeling about a task or job that is tiring and repetitive.
Cleaning up after the festival felt like endless drudgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Drudgery' isn't limited to physical tasks; it can apply to mentally exhausting activities too.
Data entry can be mind-numbing drudgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word 'drudgery' can imply that the work has a dulling effect on one's spirits or enthusiasm.
The drudgery of hospital paperwork dulled her passion for nursing.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
Use 'drudgery' to express a strong negative feeling about a task or job that is tiring and repetitive.
Cleaning up after the festival felt like endless drudgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Drudgery' isn't limited to physical tasks; it can apply to mentally exhausting activities too.
Data entry can be mind-numbing drudgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word 'drudgery' can imply that the work has a dulling effect on one's spirits or enthusiasm.
The drudgery of hospital paperwork dulled her passion for nursing.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
Use 'drudgery' to express a strong negative feeling about a task or job that is tiring and repetitive.
Cleaning up after the festival felt like endless drudgery.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical Only
'Drudgery' isn't limited to physical tasks; it can apply to mentally exhausting activities too.
Data entry can be mind-numbing drudgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Impact
The word 'drudgery' can imply that the work has a dulling effect on one's spirits or enthusiasm.
The drudgery of hospital paperwork dulled her passion for nursing.
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On the Road With Andrew...
the drudgery and misery of just being alone in these places like why am I here what's the point and that's always the next day you wake up and suddenly have a start having a good trip but for me it's just have been very transformative experience travel and I find it very energizing don't you I mean oh yeah know what you just said about being vulnerable in the world is
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Captain Charles Moore on...
After the war, we needed to direct our enormous production capacity toward creation of products for peacetime. Life Magazine helped in this effort by announcing the introduction of throwaways that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes. Mental note to the
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Are droids taking our...
the the droids are taking our jobs but focusing on that fact and this is the point entirely the point is that then we are freed up to do other things and what we're going to do I am very confident what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world
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Why do we love? A...
and the loving fusion we seek is consummated in our children. When our sexual desires are satisfied, we are thrown back into our tormented existences, and we succeed only in maintaining the species and perpetuating the cycle of human drudgery. Sounds like somebody needs a hug.
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What will future jobs...
what we want our economic system to provide. The second reason that the new machine age is such great news is that, once the androids start doing jobs, we don't have to do them anymore, and we get freed up from drudgery and toil. Now, when I talk about this with my friends
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Hangout: Protecting the...
rethinking how much plastic single-use servings plastic that stuff lasts forever and it should be treated as this immortal material not as a throwaway material and so it's kind of you know maybe it seems like drudgery to do this but when you become part of something
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Can we build AI without...
It can design the machine that can build the machine that can do any physical work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. So we're talking about the end of human drudgery. We're also talking about the end of most intellectual work.
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What does your time feel...
this experiencing the stressful drudgery of work and family life the abundant memories of high school such as homecoming football games prom graduation and so forth may seem like much longer than the mere four years that they were the second is that the
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Andrew McAfee: Are...
but focusing on that fact misses the point entirely. The point is that then we are freed up to do other things, and what we're going to do, I am very confident, what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world.
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The unforeseen...
If all of these faster technologies were supposed to free us from drudgery, why do we all feel so pressed for time? Why are we crashing our cars in record numbers, because we think we have to answer that text right away?
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On the Road With Andrew...
the drudgery and misery of just being alone in these places like why am I here what's the point and that's always the next day you wake up and suddenly have a start having a good trip but for me it's just have been very transformative experience travel and I find it very energizing don't you I mean oh yeah know what you just said about being vulnerable in the world is
Video examples
Captain Charles Moore on...
After the war, we needed to direct our enormous production capacity toward creation of products for peacetime. Life Magazine helped in this effort by announcing the introduction of throwaways that would liberate the housewife from the drudgery of doing dishes. Mental note to the
Video examples
Are droids taking our...
the the droids are taking our jobs but focusing on that fact and this is the point entirely the point is that then we are freed up to do other things and what we're going to do I am very confident what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
and the loving fusion we seek is consummated in our children. When our sexual desires are satisfied, we are thrown back into our tormented existences, and we succeed only in maintaining the species and perpetuating the cycle of human drudgery. Sounds like somebody needs a hug.
Video examples
What will future jobs...
what we want our economic system to provide. The second reason that the new machine age is such great news is that, once the androids start doing jobs, we don't have to do them anymore, and we get freed up from drudgery and toil. Now, when I talk about this with my friends
Video examples
Hangout: Protecting the...
rethinking how much plastic single-use servings plastic that stuff lasts forever and it should be treated as this immortal material not as a throwaway material and so it's kind of you know maybe it seems like drudgery to do this but when you become part of something
Video examples
Can we build AI without...
It can design the machine that can build the machine that can do any physical work, powered by sunlight, more or less for the cost of raw materials. So we're talking about the end of human drudgery. We're also talking about the end of most intellectual work.
Video examples
What does your time feel...
this experiencing the stressful drudgery of work and family life the abundant memories of high school such as homecoming football games prom graduation and so forth may seem like much longer than the mere four years that they were the second is that the
Video examples
Andrew McAfee: Are...
but focusing on that fact misses the point entirely. The point is that then we are freed up to do other things, and what we're going to do, I am very confident, what we're going to do is reduce poverty and drudgery and misery around the world.
Video examples
The unforeseen...
If all of these faster technologies were supposed to free us from drudgery, why do we all feel so pressed for time? Why are we crashing our cars in record numbers, because we think we have to answer that text right away?
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Quote examples
Sarah McLachlan
Canadian Musician
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
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Lara St. John
Canadian Musician
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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Don Bluth
American Artist
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
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Sonia Sotomayor
American Judge
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
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Richard Wagner
German Composer
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Mike Rowe
American Celebrity
Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.
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Warren Zevon
American Musician
Piano is like drudgery.
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Sarah McLachlan
Canadian Musician
I think sometimes all you need is to hear someone else say the same thing that you're going through to realize that you're not alone. I try to put some sense of hope into the songs, into whatever the situation is so that it's not just dirt, drudgery and a life of misery.
Quote examples
Lara St. John
Canadian Musician
I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
Quote examples
Kailash Satyarthi
Indian Activist
At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.
Quote examples
Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Quote examples
Don Bluth
American Artist
If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!
Quote examples
Sonia Sotomayor
American Judge
Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.
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Richard Wagner
German Composer
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Quote examples
Logan Pearsall Smith
American Writer
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
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Mike Rowe
American Celebrity
Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.
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Warren Zevon
American Musician
Piano is like drudgery.
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