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menial

[mee-nee-uhl, meen-yuhl] / ˈmi ni əl, ˈmin yəl /


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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

Menial Duties We get a curious insight into the social conditions of the musicians of this time in the bearing of Haydn towards Porpora and his pupil.

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)

Mayhem, Laws relative to it, 49 Menial Servants, Their Morals corrupted, how, 154, 155 Metals, Dealers in proposed to be regulated, 108, 540, 549 Metropolis, vide London.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick

Menial attendance, though only upon himself, is degrading to him.

From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Savage, Richard




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