drudgingly
Definition
- Adverb:
- In a laborious, monotonous, or menial manner: "drudgingly" describes performing tasks that are hard, dull, and unrewarding, often with a sense of forced effort or lack of enthusiasm.
Usage Examples
- (She performed the tedious chore with weary effort.)
- (He finished the boring task with reluctance and fatigue.)
- (They carried out the hard, repetitive labour with noticeable strain.)
Advanced Usage
- "to drudge drudgingly": to perform menial work in a slow, painful manner.
- The prisoner drudged drudgingly through the mud, day after day. (The repetitive, forced labour was done with great difficulty.)
- "drudgingly obedient": following orders without enthusiasm, merely out of duty.
- The servant drudgingly obeyed every command, never smiling. (The obedience was mechanical and joyless.)
Variants and Related Words
- Drudge (noun): a person who does hard, menial, or tedious work.
- He was a drudge in the factory, working twelve-hour shifts. (A person forced to do monotonous labour.)
- Drudgery (noun): hard, menial, or dull work.
- The drudgery of cleaning the house every weekend exhausted her. (The tedious, repetitive nature of the task.)
- Drudge (verb): to do hard, menial, or tedious work.
- She drudged through the archives for hours. (She worked laboriously and without joy.)
Synonyms
- Laboriously: with great effort and difficulty.
- Mentally: in a lowly, servile manner.
- Tediously: in a boring, slow, and repetitive way.
- Unenthusiastically: without eagerness or spirit.
Related Idioms
- to grind away at: to work hard and monotonously at a task.
- He grinds away at his homework drudgingly every evening. (He works at it with persistent, weary effort.)
- to slog through: to work slowly and with difficulty through something.
- She slogged through the long report drudgingly. (She completed the arduous task with heavy exertion.)