thankless task

Examples (10)

• Being a referee is often a thankless task.
• Cleaning up after others can feel like a thankless task.
• She found managing the difficult project to be a thankless task.
• Despite his efforts, it remained a thankless task.
• Many public servants perform thankless tasks daily.
• He was assigned the thankless task of mediating the dispute.
• Organizing the charity event turned out to be a thankless task.
• It's a thankless task, but someone has to do it.
• The job of maintaining old infrastructure is often a thankless task.
• Critics often describe their work as a thankless task.