The phrase "humdrum task" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a task that is dull, monotonous, or lacking excitement.
Example: "Filing paperwork can often feel like a humdrum task, but it's essential for keeping the office organized."
Alternatives: "mundane task" or "boring task."
Its most striking feature is to delegate the humdrum task of ferrying people and equipment to low-Earth orbit to the private sector.
Refurbishing Majar Kabir police station seemed a humdrum task, but such chores were considered crucial for the Red Caps if Iraq was to ever regain sovereignty.
Who can forget the scathing description in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, of the room where "...subeditors busied themselves with the humdrum task of reducing to blank nonsense the sheaves of misinformation"?
The Curtis Brown agency even declined to represent the would-be author, a dispirited schoolmaster who had written the book during classes and given his pupils, in lieu of an education, the humdrum task of totting up the number of words per page.
But the government has also set about the humdrum tasks of any sovereign state.
But most firms use the Net for more humdrum tasks—recruiting, advertising, attracting investors and so on.
If roles are not to revert after that first year, fathers will have to endure the humdrum tasks, mothers forsake primacy in their children's lives; territory has to be permanently ceded.
Important elected office-holders and high appointed officials create bureaucratic departments to perform the humdrum tasks of national importance.
Try doing your humdrum tasks in a different way, at a different time, in a different seat or with different people.
The humdrum tasks of her everyday life transform into a labyrinth of intolerable agonies, where any unassuming incident can trigger memories of life before.
