sinecure

Life was not a task to him, but a sinecure.

It's not a sinecure after all, being chairman of an international oil company.

I will take care that your new office shall be a sinecure.

The great thing is to have money of your own, or, failing that, to find a sinecure.

If you are an officer, it is something of a sinecure; but you'll have to watch your step.

And the service her family gave could scarcely be considered sinecures.

Once upon a time being a legislator was a sinecure.

Essentially, the sinecure allowed him to focus on his training.

No, it was certainly not a sinecure that I had undertaken.

But the alternative is the current state of affairs, in which jobs are sinecures.

He was awarded with a sinecure office in the royal administration.

The job was often a political sinecure before the 1930s.

The office itself was at this time a sinecure.

There are no votes, let alone pension sinecures, in it.

"It should certainly be a sinecure in this house, I agree.

"I understand there are a number of such sinecures," Shetland said.

"The last communications officer had been taking his office more or less as a sinecure.

Being bumped out of such a sinecure is cruel punishment.

You always agreed with your father that the job should not be a sinecure for you.

This function is a kind of sinecure with no pastoral responsibilities.

These positions were little more than a sinecure and carried no official duties.

By some writers this office is called a sinecure.

I'd better see a postcard from whatever sinecure your uncle finds you.

"I don't think Washington should be a sinecure for career politicians," he said.

"That's not unheard of, for people to find a sinecure while seeking public office."