I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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most
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Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line.
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She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks.
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A kitchen maid was usually the most menial servant in a house.
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Today they are qualified for only the most menial employment.
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Almost whatever her personal qualities, she can not hope for anything other than the most menial of work.
■ NOUN
job
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Once here, there are only the most menial jobs open to them - shop-girls, domestic servants, seamstresses.
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I said get me off these menial jobs .
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In Durban he drifted into a succession of menial jobs before joining the Natal Mounted Police.
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Edwin worked fitfully at his menial job of freight clerk, continuing to disappoint his family.
task
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Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line.
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But hiring such people means that you have to pitch in and be willing to do the menial tasks yourself.
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As well as providing the bulk of labour for large plantations, they carried out menial tasks in Colombo and other urban centres.
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She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Belknap was unable to find anything but menial labor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But hiring such people means that you have to pitch in and be willing to do the menial tasks yourself.
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Even well-trained women were forced into menial labor.
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I had acquired the true menial mentality.
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She performed her duties faithfully, reserving to herself the most menial tasks.
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Ten workers performing the most menial tasks imaginable were picked at random from the processing line.
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The outcome of this educational vacuum is low-paid, menial work.
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This mournfully bright menial Val wore high heels and a black beret.
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Today they are qualified for only the most menial employment.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As such, they were treated as menials, on a level with cooks, footmen and other servants.
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Other cartoons are lifeless; plenty of sitcoms offer droll toddlers and clever menials, bringing down their betters with disparaging asides.
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They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.
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To the notables and the men of affairs, Sergeant Janeway was a picturesque menial at the vestibule of inside dope.