tedious task
Frequency: 6.06.2 per million words
a task that is too long, slow, or dull
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Examples (10)
- Filling out tax forms can be a tedious task.
- She found the constant data entry a particularly tedious task.
- The professor assigned them a tedious task of compiling historical records.
- No one enjoys a tedious task, but someone has to do it.
- Despite being a tedious task, cleaning the entire house felt rewarding afterward.
- He dreaded the tedious task of sorting through thousands of old documents.
- Automating this tedious task would save us a lot of time.
- The assembly line workers performed the same tedious task day in and day out.
- Learning a new language often involves many tedious tasks, like memorizing vocabulary.
- To avoid the tedious task of manual counting, they invested in new machinery.