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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a drudgery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task or activity that is tedious, monotonous, and requires hard work, often without any enjoyment.
Example: "Cleaning the house every weekend feels like a drudgery that I can't escape."
Alternatives: "a chore" or "a grind".
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"We take that seriously, and it does not feel like a drudgery," she said.
"The working-class culture can be infected by that idea that work is a drudgery," he said in the interview.
Work shouldn't be a drudgery where you end up at 65, retired and wondering what you did with your life.
As his days devolved into a drudgery of pills, bad daytime TV, and constant reliance on a breathing machine, Dad told us he was ready to die.
Cooking can be a drudgery, yes, especially in a world where most people's idea of making dinner consists of juggling takeout menus or shutting the microwave door and hitting "Start". If you make time for it, however, I've found that it can be an express route to feeling better about life, a way to be creative that produces instant dividends.
Two decades ago, shopping for a home was a drudgery.
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PERSONAL computers have simplified life in many ways, but there is a price to pay in the form of a little drudgery.
I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery.
It lies rather in a slogging drudgery which improves by inches the laws that govern and the lives led by the people who elected them.
When it was all over, the surviving crusaders returned to a feudal drudgery whose only innovation was the various plagues the soldiers brought back with them from the East.
A boss makes work drudgery; a leader makes it interesting.
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