menial

It’s a fine line because, yes, you may have good reason to be on alert if you hear more stories of your mother giving a neighbor thousands of dollars for doing a relatively menial job.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The Muslim-majority region, battling some of India's highest unemployment rates, has become increasingly dependent on outsiders to perform jobs that many locals consider menial, including domestic work, agriculture and construction.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

As AI takes over more menial tasks, companies are entrusting interns with bigger responsibilities—from leading projects to business trips abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In theory, we could able to liberate ourselves of dull, menial tasks, such as replying to emails, going to meetings or managing calendars and diaries, by delegating these to capable bots.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Most Scholars who aren’t enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they’re paid next to nothing.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

If Snyder’s idea of running a franchise was to send menials scurrying for more whiskey ice, the other owners were happy to accept the free if sloppy proceeds.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2020

If our children become accustomed to bossing around their mechanical menials without so much as a please or a thank you, will they turn into adults we can’t stand?

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

“It would be menials who would win this war,” Juliet tells herself just before she’s plucked from the rank-and-file MI5 office staff stationed in the old Wormwood Scrubs prison at the beginning of the war.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018

If schools such as Syracuse and Tennessee are having trouble scraping off the mud, it’s not just because they’ve been dirtied by a few menials.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2015

She belonged to a generation that treated policemen as menials, whatever their rank.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan