Crossword-Solution: SISYPHEAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sisyphean | a. | Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SISYPHEAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Endless and difficult. | 1 answer |
| Eternally frustrating | 1 answer |
| Futile on a grand scale | 1 answer |
| Like a meaningless pursuit | 1 answer |
| AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS IRRITATING OR FRUSTRATING OR DISAPPOINTING | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
TEECOLR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with SISYPHEAN (5)
One evening I found him in his chambers engaged upon his Sisyphean labour of "tidying up." A heap of letters, photographs, and bills lay before him.
The amount of time they waste in this Sisyphean task would, even at charwoman's wages, buy socks and stockings for a dozen families.
Exhausted by her Sisyphean task, distrustful of this new and unfamiliar method, the Osmia resigns herself and expires in her cell.
The ages are but baubles hung upon The thread of some strong lives--and one slight wrist May lift a century above the dust; For Time, The Sisyphean load of little lives, Becomes the globe and sceptre of the great.
Every man that sets himself against God in Christ, either to argue Him down and talk Him out of existence, or to 'break His bands asunder and cast away His cords,' has begun a Sisyphean task which will never come to any good.
Quotes with SISYPHEAN (3)
Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.
In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages did a century ago. Computers have no effect on productivity because people learn to complicate and repeat tasks that have been made easier.
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1961–2019).