menial

IPA: mˈiniʌɫ

noun

  • A servant, especially a domestic servant.
  • A person who has a subservient nature.

adjective

  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
  • Of or relating to unskilled work.
  • Servile; low; mean.
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Examples of "menial" in Sentences

  • Any time lost in menial labor is painful and expensive.
  • It is noteworthy that the Tahitian does not distinguish between what we call menial labor and other work.
  • But even these numbers are misleading, as many of those on staff serve in menial jobs such as cooks or gardeners.
  • Other refugees will be used as cheap labour in menial jobs and will be resettled in remote areas that are unacceptable for Jews to live in.
  • Unless they have a valuable talent that is not tied to their intelligence, most of them are going to wind up in menial positions making minimum wage.
  • Only as a menial is the Colored American to be seen – the Nation's deliberate and cowardly tribute to the Southern demand "to keep the Negro in his place."
  • In a not too distant future, water shortages force a young laborer (Luis Fernando Peña) to a Tijuana firm that employs specially equipped people to virtually control robots in menial U.S. jobs.
  • My own view is that there are probably cognitive and possibly neurological differences which contribute to this pattern, but that given my experience both in menial jobs and professional areas dealing with colleagues of different backgrounds, I do not believe that African-Americans are inferior.

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