unskilled work
Example Sentences
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The first major wave of Sikh immigrants arrived in the 1980s, when many Italians were turning their backs on what was considered menial, unskilled work.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2016
He refuses to bring on unauthorized immigrants and has found locals largely unwilling to take on such tedious unskilled work.
From Reuters • May 2, 2015
Nor were those sentenced to “confinement at hard labor” restricted to digging ditches or other unskilled work; nor were they only men.
From Salon • May 25, 2012
And this picture is not restricted to unskilled work, or the more blighted parts of the country.
From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2011
Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
