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of work: unskilled and uninteresting

The fraternity pledges are given all the menial jobs.

menial = of work: unskilled and uninteresting

Her work experience consists of menial jobs, but she's performed them reliably.
Now get out of my sight, Thorn, until I find some other menial task for you.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse

menial = of work: unskilled and uninteresting

Last month, you began to get just an inkling of the pride and satisfaction that can come from doing a good job even at the most menial task.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

menial = of work: unskilled and uninteresting

The monster may be able to do some menial chores.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

menial = unskilled

And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body.
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle
Menial tasks in South Africa are invariably performed by Africans.
Nelson Mandela -- I Am Prepared to Die
POZZO: Where is my menial?
Samuel Beckett -- Waiting for Godot
He found menial jobs, day-labor work: picking cotton, stacking ice in an ice plant.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
What menial cringing will be mine!
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
That oriental menial had a wretched life under the tyranny of Jos Sedley.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
"Menial laborers like these don't usually live to eighty," she says.
Ally Condie -- Matched
If he's so grand, why would he accept such a menial assignment as following our targets?
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
They order me about, and the more menial the task, the better.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
And lest she forget that she's servant of us all, to her fall the menial tasks in this Ceremony of the Seed.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Currently, I worked for Kilvin and was given relatively menial jobs at relatively low pay.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Two menial dogs before their master press'd.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
Those menials having obeyed the mandate, Edward Dorrit, Esquire, proceeded.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Supervisors gave him the lowest menial jobs in the plant.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
After all, he'd stuck with pih for a decade by now, and done a lot of its most menial chores along the way.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

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