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drudgery

/ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi/ noun C2
  1. Exhausting, menial, and tedious work. (countable, uncountable)

Plural drudgeries

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But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 26 · B2
What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 53 · C1

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