menial
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Menial tasks and low wages, most of which will go straight into the family pot, seem to be his lot in life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Menial piecework tasks, parceled out through apps that force workers into 12-hour days in the hopes they can eke out a living through a lifetime of endless servility.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2020
It's the only room I can keep locked, and which my Menial never enters in my absence.
From Category Phoenix by Ellanby, Boyd
But in every such case the Servant had transcended the Menial, the Service had been exalted above the Wage.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
No. Menial servants, both male and female, are specially exempted from the operation of the bill.
From Sunday under Three Heads by Dickens, Charles
Vocabulary lists containing menial
The Handmaid's Tale
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