With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.
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Drudgery
//ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi//
Synonyms for "drudgery" (52 found)
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31 translations across 19 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- angari noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 苦差事 noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Czech
3 entries- dřina noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- lopota noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- otročina noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Dutch
1 entries- hard labeur noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Esperanto
1 entries- teda laborado noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Finnish
2 entries- raadanta noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- raataminen noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
French
1 entries- corvée noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
German
2 entries- Plackerei noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- Schinderei noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Greek
1 entries- αγγαρεία noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Irish
2 entries- crácamas noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- sclábhaíocht noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Japanese
1 entries- 苦役 noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Korean
1 entries- 고역 noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Polish
3 entries- babranina noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- harówka noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- papranina noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Portuguese
2 entries- labuta noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- lida noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Russian
2 entries- ну́дная рабо́та noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- тяжёлая рабо́та noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- tràillealachd noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kùluk noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- tlȁka noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- ку̀лук noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
- тла̏ка noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Swedish
1 entries- slavgöra noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Welsh
1 entries- slafdod noun (exhausting, menial, and tedious work)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
She does her homework on Fridays to save herself from the drudgery of having to do it during the weekend.
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What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect.
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With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
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