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sisyphean
CIDE DICTIONARY
sisyphean, a.
Relating to Sisyphus; incessantly recurring; as, Sisyphean labors. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sisyphean, adj. (of toil) endless and fruitless like that of Sisyphus in Greek mythology (whose task in Hades was to push uphill a stone that at once rolled down again).
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