menial
adjective
noun
Origin of menial
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Related Words for menial
humdrum, boring, base, low, routine, mean, common, abject, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, ignoble, ignominious, obeisant, obsequious, servile, slavish, sorry, subservientExamples from the Web for menial
Contemporary Examples of menial
Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.
Or refusing to take on menial work, such as working in a café for example, and instead whining at your parents to pay your rent?
Charles Murray worries that we've made it too easy to be a menial worker.
Prosperity created a situation familiar to Americans and Northern Europeans: some jobs became too menial for Russians.
People get tired of applying for menial jobs and the changes.
Historical Examples of menial
They may be had tied in bundles by the employers of menial labor.
The Call of the Twentieth CenturyDavid Starr Jordan
He is going to work, to be a menial, to earn a living by honest means?
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
He was doorkeeper to the household, so he began on the duties of his menial position.
The ChristianHall Caine
And there were other things, and worse,—menial services of the lowest kind.
Dr. SevierGeorge W. Cable
Many would scoff, and call it menial Let them, if they will.
Arthur O'LearyCharles James Lever