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
Nobody in Menial, nobody in Office, nobody in Research—almost nobody at all—will be allowed to benefit from it.
From Category Phoenix by Ellanby, Boyd
He asked himself who Keggs was, anyway; and replied defiantly that Keggs was a Menial—and an overfed Menial.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
That the Menial Servants of his Britannic Majesty's Subjects, the Natives of the Country, either Moors or Jews, be exempt from Taxes of all kinds.
From Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question by Wolf, Lucien
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