Labor and Mess

Labor

Labor noun - A dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work.

Mess and labor are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mess" instead a noun "Labor".

Nearby Words: labour, labored, laboured, laborer, labourer

Mess

Mess noun - A state in which everything is out of order.

Labor and mess are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Labor" instead a noun "Mess".

Nearby Words: messy, messed, messing

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Little Men Karma Houdini: Blair, who gets away scot-free though he caused the mess, while Dan gets a year of hard labor for killing a man accidentally.
  • Video Game / The Sims 1 Later installments have a woman (or sometimes a man) actually go into labor, but there's no mess, it's quick, and they get their body back immediately.
  • Literature / Miss Lulu Bett Jerkass: Dwight is mean and nasty, insulting Lulu, taking advantage of her free labor, blaming her for the mess with Ninian.
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