Job
Job noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Usage example: boy, doing all that filing was a real job
Nearby Word: jobless
Killer
Killer noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.
Usage example: weeding out that overgrown garden is going to be a killer
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The opera Rigoletto features the killer-for-hire Sparafucile, who treats his work as an ordinary job and prides himself on a job well done.
Source: Professional Killer - Interestingly, he became a killer out of a desire to be a hero... his idealism clashes rather heavily with his job, a fact that is central to his characterization.
Source: Professional Killer -
When he met Detective Paige, he committed the second and third murders (again, according to him) so that the police would realize that her serial-killer theory was right and give her back her job.
Source: Film / The Alphabet Killer
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