as in humble
showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness
every command was obeyed in the menial manner of someone who seemed grateful just to be in the presence of a celebrity
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as in servant
a person hired to perform household or personal services
immigrants to that country faced fierce prejudice and could expect to find work only as menials
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Recent Examples of menial
Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
The job market is constantly evolving, and the reality is that everyone is now competing against experienced talent around the world, and ever more sophisticated AI systems that are making menial jobs all but obsolete.
—Sergei Revzin and Vadim Revzin, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
Introducing artificial intelligence into your business can help you to minimize the menial.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 June 2022
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Adjective
Today, with little government support – which was cut off during British colonial rule in favor of formal schools – many of the children don’t receive formal education beyond learning to recite from the Quran and are left to survive by begging or working menial jobs.
—Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
The job market is constantly evolving, and the reality is that everyone is now competing against experienced talent around the world, and ever more sophisticated AI systems that are making menial jobs all but obsolete.
—Sergei Revzin and Vadim Revzin, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
Despite the national security risk articulated by politicians and federal law enforcement officials, some users see the risk as menial compared to other social media platforms.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2023
Introducing artificial intelligence into your business can help you to minimize the menial.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 June 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for menial
Adjective
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Assuming every other factor is the same, a bigger home with high-end materials will almost always cost more than one with a smaller floor plan and more humble finishes.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
11 Mar. 2025
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Some come from humble backgrounds, and modeling is something that totally changes their lives.—
Aamina Inayat Khan,
StyleCaster,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Carrigan plays the dutiful, largely silent family servant in the movie.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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In the film, a loyal government servant accepts a promotion, a move that will be beneficial to him, his wife, and their two teenage daughters.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.—
Sean Malin,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2024
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These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.—
Serhiy Kudelia,
Foreign Affairs,
27 Feb. 2014
Adjective
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Small mercies are welcome when the losses are this meek.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Sometimes, young players of his profile are quite meek — apologetic for their ability, even.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
27 July 2024
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“Menial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/menial. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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