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menial
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    She'll provide for our parents and give me and my brothers menial jobs to get us out of the war.†  (source)
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    It was coarse-woven and simply made, without so much as a single bow for trimming, but it was certainly far more suited to the menial work she had to do in it.†  (source)
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    Selling junk for petty cash, our menial jobs, our grimy apartment—the American version of a hut; maybe in America, when Baba looked at me, he saw a little bit of Hassan.†  (source)
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    The work was both menial and dangerous.†  (source)
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    Sometimes Klodwig raced along like a silky bat, hunting sleepy menials, but as he turned corners he gave himself away by the whoosh of air, and in the time it took his eyes to focus, Alessandro would have shifted to his knees on the floor, sweeping crumbs from under the chair in which he had been resting.†  (source)
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    She wiped one brush after another upon a piece of old rag, menially, on purpose.†  (source)
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    Most Scholars who aren't enslaved work menial jobs—as farmhands or cleaners or stevedores—backbreaking labor for which they're paid next to nothing.†  (source)
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    Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast?†  (source)
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    And lest she forget that she's servant of us all, to her fall the menial tasks in this Ceremony of the Seed.†  (source)
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    And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body.†  (source)
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    At the time, Trudy thought Ida Paine had meant that Edgar would only be able to use his hands, that he was destined for menial work, which Trudy knew was wrong.†  (source)
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    I ought to say something of this Smerdyakov, but I am ashamed of keeping my readers' attention so long occupied with these common menials, and I will go back to my story, hoping to say more of Smerdyakov in the course of it.†  (source)
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    I chose not to think about Syed at the Job Center and how I would explain my reasons for leaving this most well-paid of menial jobs.†  (source)
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