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Meanings of menial in English

Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

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              Usage of menial in English
              1
              The braves themselves did not condescend to menial labor of this kind.
              Man-Size
              2
              Yes; for a more menial slave was never sold from the block.
              Bamboo Tales
              3
              We all share whatever work there is, and no labor is menial.
              Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World
              4
              He had been paraded, before the multitudes, the menial of the Jew.
              Notable Women of Olden Time
              5
              You found him a dependent menial; you have made him a soldier.
              The Facts of Reconstruction
              6
              Part of those menial activities had been to clean the animal cages.
              Storm Over Warlock
              7
              And so I found myself in jobs that would be considered menial.
              The Guardian
              8
              She spoke in a tone of physical as well as menial agony.
              Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
              9
              She was the head of the household, but no menial nor scullion.
              Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks / A Picture of New ...
              10
              But you allow him to perform tasks of the most menial kind.
              The Backwoods of Canada / Being Letters from the Wife of an Emig...
              11
              Then and there I disowned menial service for me and my people.
              Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
              12
              Nor was it supposed that I was to act as his menial.
              The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
              13
              The more menial part of these duties he performed by his waiter.-pp.
              A Collection of College Words and Customs
              14
              However they had disposed her, she would not accept the menial attitude.
              The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
              15
              It is one which no menial, no servile nature can fitly occupy.
              Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
              16
              Even a menial servant would give warning if disturbed at his meals.
              What Will He Do with It? — Volume 04
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