Synonyms for donkey work
- noun
Definitions
- n. 1
Work that is difficult, boring, and routine.
Why does everyone else get the interesting work while I have to do all the donkey work, and even the company's dirty work?
Related words
- Other spellings
- donkey-work donkeywork
Example sentences
- grind You need to take a step back from the daily grind.
- drudgery Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.
- plodding The old man was plodding along.
By length
- 5 letters
- grind1
- 8 letters
- drudgery3, plodding2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (drudgery3 = 3 syllables).