Jim Hightower

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

American Activist

Mariella Frostrup

Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.

British Journalist

Will Self

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.

English Author

John Burnside

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Scottish Writer

Jacob Weisberg

Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.

American Journalist

James Turrell

I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

American Artist

Antonio Tabucchi

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Italian Writer

Donald McCaig

American Novelist

Indicates something is not special or remarkable, just typical of what you'd expect daily.

Not Exciting

Emphasizes the mundane aspect of activities or tasks that are done regularly.

Routine Tasks

It's used in casual conversation, not typically in formal settings or documents.

Workaday