menial
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5.4
- adjective
- /ˈmiːniəl/
- Desperation has me applying for the most menial jobs just to have something coming in.
- menial jobs
- menial labor
- menial tasks
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Watch on YouTubeHe had jobs, but they were kind of menial jobs as well.
- He had jobs, but they were kind of menial jobs as well.
- That's what would be classed as the most menial low entry job in the world.
- Now, if you're doing some jobs and I'm talking really menial jobs, then you're not earning that money.
- And the darker black people had the sort of menial jobs.
- And we have a whole literature sympathizing with the people stuck in these menial mine deadening, dangerous jobs.
- I think they, I think for quite a long time, urban dwellers think that migrant workers, you know, from the countryside, they do the kind of menial tasks.
- The thing that's of concern to me is that a lot of the movement here to loosen labor laws has been on this menial labor side.
- It's like suddenly kind of robots or computers will do a lot of the more menial tasks and you'll, everyone will kind of be a manager.
- And then by the next year I spent all my time in the art department and not only in there doing menial tasks.
- Let's just see how strong a company's rights are over its menial talent.
- And he says so little do they value the good and so far does it descend among menial things.
- It's under HMP and IT I'm I'm both sort of fucking sewing mailbags, doing menial tasks and clean.
- And you just think I waste so much time worrying about such menial, pointless things that really eat away at me.
- Leave is boring or menial labor or you know, impossible to be interesting.
Examples
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We have been bringing them here for ages to do menial work.
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For years he did menial work, washing dishes and busing tables, anything he could get.
Fiction book (1991) -
I mean, get a job or something, you know, even a menial job at this point.
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I hate to see you at menial tasks.
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He had jobs, but they were kind of menial jobs as well.
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There are always going to be menial chores that can be done without much instruction.
Blog text (27) -
She finds no task too menial.
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Most able-bodied men work menial jobs, and those who hustle usually barely scrape by.
Academic text (1991) -
Now, if you're doing some jobs and I'm talking really menial jobs, then you're not earning that money.
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After finishing college, she accepted a menial job to gain some work experience.
Synonyms
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3.4
From a low social rank or simple background
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4.2
A person of low rank or importance, for example a servant
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1.9
A job that does not need special training
Antonyms
How Menial
Surface Forms
Etymology
Menial comes from an old word meaning 'household', seen in French ménage, because it used to name work done for the home. So a menial job today means low-skill work that serves others or the household.