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Etymologies
- From Latin Sisyphēius, from Greek Sisupheios, from Sisuphos, Sisyphus.
Examples
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“With healthcare, jobs, economy, and two wars looming large and staring the country down, it will be sisyphean task for anybody to win over the public.”
“But trying to make sense of this show is a sisyphean task, like trying to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue after six Midori Sours, so I'll let it be.”
The Huffington Post: Una LaMarche: Pregnant in Heels Ep. 1: The Couple Who Branded Their Baby
“Yet in your sisyphean struggle to link Jon Stewart and Rush Limbaugh as peers, you have to completely ignore the wide gulf between the two and what they do.”
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“Is ufology a sisyphean endeavour, unworthy of our prolonged attention?”
“I know is what my sister tells me, and she lives in Arizona. posted by Sheila Ryan in history, memory, music, sisyphean | * | ...”
“Oh, but how their tune changes when they are faced with a serious illness and the often sisyphean task of challenging a doctor's recommendation or a hospital's procedures or getting the insurance coverage for which they dutifully paid.”
The Huffington Post: Kimberly Krautter: How to Navigate Health Care in Spite of the Reform Debate
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Greek
Gordian knot, Proteus, sisyphean, eudemonia, glossolalia, hemorrhage, hamadryad, aphotic, tautogeneity, anthropomorphism, polygamy, polygyny and 17 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 13 more...
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jeffrey.t.whitney's list
sartorial, sabbatarian, sagacious, desiccate, ersatz, insouciant, atavistic, luddite, crwth, obdurate, stentorian, ruminate and 51 more...

whichbe Endless, unavailing, and fruitless labor. May 19, 2008