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Examples of menial in a Sentence
immigrants to that country faced fierce prejudice and could expect to find work only as menials
Origin and Etymology of menial
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Definition of menial
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adverbExamples of menial in a Sentence
every command was obeyed in the menial manner of someone who seemed grateful just to be in the presence of a celebrity
Recent Examples of menial from the Web
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As a part-time employee, Miocic always gets ordered by the senior members into doing menial chores.
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Its booming IT industry has taken care of Silicon Valley's menial jobs.
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Its booming IT industry has taken care of Silicon Valley’s menial jobs.
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But all the former gang leader can find is a menial job as a deliveryman.
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Simply put, the companies say, Americans are not very interested in menial, short-term work.
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Meanwhile their neighbors engaged in a range of menial tasks, including gluing together matchbooks by hand and selling vintage snacks (jellied eel, anyone?) from street carts.
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Raisi has pledged to support the poor with a monthly cash payment equivalent to $65 — about a sixth of what a menial laborer makes in a month.
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The letter noted that the applicant was the only student who knew the names of every janitorial staff member and would help custodians with menial tasks like turning lights off in empty rooms and cleaning up after other students.
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Origin and Etymology of menial
Middle English meynial, from Anglo-French meignal, from mesnee, mayné household, retinue, from Vulgar Latin *mansionata, from Latin mansion-, mansio dwelling — more at mansion
MENIAL Defined for English Language Learners
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: a person (such as a servant) who does boring or unpleasant work for little money : someone who does menial work
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Definition of menial for English Language Learners
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—used to describe boring or unpleasant work that does not require special skill and usually does not pay much money
MENIAL Defined for Kids
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: of or relating to boring or unpleasant work that does not require special skill menial tasks
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