Menial

Owen lowered his gaze as they passed the two guards posted nearby and adopted the attitude of amenial servant busy running an errand.

If Saturn lacks dignity it can indicate the lower regions of society: foolish people, down and outs, scavengers, beggars and employees who act as servants or menial staff to others.

The nearest university is a six to eight hours drive, so many of the children go on to work in a nearby factory doing menial labour.

The lack of confidence and education forced some to work on menial tasks.

Food and shelter are the greatest problems, and many children have lost families or work at menialtasks to provide meager, subsistence-level support.

Transcribing the information was menial work that did not require her level of expertise to do – it was likely this guy just wanted her to do the work for him, so he would not have to.

Cheng said they would often look for menial work in restaurants or labouring work around the city.

He finds he is not mean-spirited enough to be a criminal, not tough enough to be a police officer, and too smart to subject himself to menial work.

This crisis causes farmers to abandon their land and migrate toward urban areas to find menial work, or to illegally immigrate to more financially stable countries.

He busied himself, sweeping the visitor’s quarters, washing their clothes and helping with the mostmenial work in fields.

In the eleventh century the Norse kings probably had an immediate retinue of about ninety men, excluding menial servants and hangers on.

Regardless of whether she enjoyed the menial work of typing or selling or waitressing or clerking, she at least had freedom of movement to a degree.

Nor were we happy with how some of the churches educated, when they seemed to train the young primarily for menial pursuits such as domestics.

Approach everything menial as something special and it need never be menial again.

Life for most was dull and without pleasantries, simply killing time with menial tasks.

When they hit the fleet, they face a year of menial tasks – scrubbing toilets, burning trash, picking up litter.

Most of them have done menial work throughout their student life to help see them through university.

As one of the more respected maids, she did not have to bother with the menial tasks such as preparing the fires, she was merely there to serve the food, and assist in the general goings on of castle life.

That means his mission commander can ask him to clean the air filters, unload some equipment, or take care of other menial tasks.

As a menial , I was never told who these men were, never introduced to them, but I assumed they were the backers who had money at risk.

Try to set yourself a menial task – eg, setting the table, cleaning the bath, making the tea – whilst you sing.

Many refugees who were professionals in their countries now find themselves performing menial tasks or manual labor.

His daily duties entailed preparing vegetables, doing the dishes and the other menial tasks that no one else wanted.

They will be allowed to perform menial tasks that require no skill whatsoever.

By contrast, women from high-class families had maids to take care of most household chores and other menial work and thus worked far less than men or women in lower socioeconomic groups.

While she was gone a menial came by to light the ceiling lamps, a touch with a burning taper on the end of a pole and the gas wicks glowed to life.

My brain must be shrinking the longer I spend here, because I seem to derive great happiness and satisfaction from menial tasks.

Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundreds and thousands of children are still languishing as menials in households, if not in hazardous industries.

As time marched on, Suzie sat at her desk and performed her menial task as menially as she could, and because of this, her writing changed.