menial
adjective
lowly and sometimes degrading.
menials
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pluralof menial.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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If Snyder’s idea of running a franchise was to send menials scurrying for more whiskey ice, the other owners were happy to accept the free if sloppy proceeds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020
If our children become accustomed to bossing around their mechanical menials without so much as a please or a thank you, will they turn into adults we can’t stand?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
“It would be menials who would win this war,” Juliet tells herself just before she’s plucked from the rank-and-file MI5 office staff stationed in the old Wormwood Scrubs prison at the beginning of the war.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018
If schools such as Syracuse and Tennessee are having trouble scraping off the mud, it’s not just because they’ve been dirtied by a few menials.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015
Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast?
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
