menial
琐碎的,琐碎,琐事,琐碎的人
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Definitions
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- : lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
- : servile; submissive: menial attitudes.
- : pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants; humble: menial furnishings.
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- : a domestic servant.
- : a servile person.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Her mother fled Japan when Hirono was 9, bringing her children to Hawaii and working menial jobs for low wages to keep them fed.
Gone are the cluttered maps that entice players with menial tasks.
During the Confederacy, as each secessionist state printed its own money, images of enslaved people picking cotton and doing other forms of menial labor appeared on the currency in several states.
Essentially, Wolfe’s hormones failed to function properly, and even the most menial tasks were exhausting.
Many music traditions are dying out, with practitioners taking up menial labor to make ends meet.
They are often forced to drop out of school and take menial jobs to support their new family.
Although I hated the menial tasks the job required, it gave me a window into the power of local government.
Or refusing to take on menial work, such as working in a café for example, and instead whining at your parents to pay your rent?
UNRWA teachers are paid such menial wages that many treat teaching like flipping burgers.
Licensed practical nurses are essentially menial hospital workers who collect vital signs, change bedpans, and bathe patients.
He lay there five days, during which we performed every friendly and even every menial office.