drudgerous

"It gets you through the more 'drudgerous' times."

Roll Call Print Edition Current Issue 2009

"It gets you through the more 'drudgerous' times."

Roll Call Print Edition Current Issue 2009

Meanwhile middle class parents are freaking out because the state has now mandated this model across the board, and school has become even more drudgerous (as if that were even possible).

Matthew Yglesias » Is Our Children Learning 2010

We could replace a lot of the drudgerous mathematics that's being taught with math that's purely fun, with no real promise of "you're going to use this," but just "this is beautiful stuff."

TEDTalks (video) 2009

Since I work for an American company, my stat holidays fall on days when the rest of the country is in pinstriped meetings, and so I tend to cram in a million drudgerous tasks I've neglected: nail trimming, eyebrow tweezing, vaccination shots for my son that are now two years overdue.

blog: May 2008 2008

Since I work for an American company, my stat holidays fall on days when the rest of the country is in pinstriped meetings, and so I tend to cram in a million drudgerous tasks I've neglected: nail trimming, eyebrow tweezing, vaccination shots for my son that are now two years overdue.

blog: Dinner with Dooce 2008

I thought that continuing the search through meditation or endless conversations would result in drudgerous discipline.

Grace Slick The Biography Rowes, Barbara 1980

The students are not stellar but they're all right, though most of them hate writing (and see it as drudgerous and formulaic).

Ask MetaFilter 2008

Like a lot of romantic, boundary-pushing, post-leftish notions it’s purposefully detached from precise conceptual formulations, but the general notion is that the exertion fundamentally necessary to, you know, keeping us alive should be fun rather than drudgerous.

Stress, Labor & Play 2010