sisyphean
IPA: sˈɪsˈɪfˈiʌn
Root Word: Sisyphean
adjective
- Incessant or incessantly recurring, but futile.
- (Greek mythology) Relating to Sisyphus.
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Examples of "sisyphean" in Sentences
- My best wishes in the Sisyphean task before you.
- Keep fighting the good fight, you Sisyphean hero.
- The whole enterprise is like some sisyphean nightmare.
- It just seems rather Sisyphean to keep pushing this issue.
- And trying to remove a spoiler warning is a Sisyphean battle.
- I would suggest that listing the roles of social workers is Sisyphean task.
- I would substitute sisyphean for herculean for the correct Grecian adjective.
- I think I might be about to be the first person to use the word "sisyphean" on
- It's because of theimpossibilityof it, the sisyphean feat of putting pen to paper.
- I would substitute sisyphean for herculean for the correct Grecian adjective. anon says:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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