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Tedious, menial and exhausting work

Great, tedious or continuous effort that is put into work, a task, or a goal

A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person

Boredom or tediousness

Severe suffering, difficulty or privation

(figurative) An established series of actions followed during an activity

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Noun

Tedious, menial and exhausting work

heavy labour^UK

backbreaking work

difficult project

tough assignment

blood, sweat and tears

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“The drudgery of literary work, where it is followed as a vocation, and not an avocation, is proverbial.”

Noun

Great, tedious or continuous effort that is put into work, a task, or a goal

blood, sweat and tears

blood, sweat, and tears

sweat of one's brow

uphill struggle

tough assignment

industriousness

conscientiousness

back-breaking task

labour of Hercules

backbreaking work

physical effort

trials and tribulations

one's level best

old college try

hardworkingness

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“Minimizing the drudgery involved in such activities will require the introduction and adoption of labor-saving and drudgery-reducing technologies.”

Noun

A state of bondage, slavery, or subjugation to another person

chains constraint

disenfranchisement

peculiar institution

human trafficking

penal servitude

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Noun

Boredom or tediousness

featurelessness

long-windedness

interminableness

lack of excitement

lack of variation

lack of variety

lack of interest

uninterestingness

commonplaceness

unimaginativeness

repetitiousness

unchangeableness

unremarkableness

standardization^US

standardisation^UK

characterlessness

lack of diversity

dissatisfaction

flavourlessness

world-weariness

conventionality

lack of imagination

lack of flavour

lack of originality

lack of inspiration

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Noun

Severe suffering, difficulty or privation

impecuniousness

trials and tribulations

financial distress

humble beginnings

stroke of bad luck

reverse of fortune

unfortunateness

reversal of fortune

uphill struggle

tough assignment

harsh conditions

apprehensiveness

desperate straits

thorn in the flesh

baptism of fire

lack of success

painful experience

difficult going

unpleasant experience

kick in the teeth

devastating blow

serious accident

heartbrokenness

stroke of ill luck

fatal attraction

tough situation

pain in the rear

pain in the backside

pain in the neck

pain in the bum

pressure cooker

devil's own luck

demoralization^US

disconsolateness

unwanted responsibility

thorn in one's side

nervous tension

demoralisation^UK

downheartedness

pushing poop uphill

up poop creak without a paddle

broken-heartedness

heaviness of heart

mental suffering

sweat of one's brow

blood, sweat and tears

conscientiousness

dissatisfaction

discontentedness

stumbling block

unfortunate incident

sense of foreboding

butterflies in the stomach

fly in the ointment

spanner in the works

monkey wrench in the works

wounded feelings

cause for concern

unconsolability

mid-life crisis

nervous excitement

thorn in your side

screaming abdabs

millstone round one's neck

source of difficulty

difficult situation

source of trouble

source of aggravation

source of annoyance

source of irritation

bane of one's life

disillusionment

rough situation

hell in a handbasket

pain in the behind

unfortunate development

piece of bad luck

whole new ballgame

heavy-heartedness

negative aspect

hard row to hoe

hard mountain to climb

teething trouble

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Noun

(figurative) An established series of actions followed during an activity

humdrum existence

usual procedure

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