said of work: lacking in interest or status and involving little skill
dated relating to servants or to their status; lowly
the situation of governesses, the only one in which even a well-educated woman … can struggle for a subsistence; and even this is a dependence next to menial — Mary Wollstonecraft
menially adv
[Middle English meynial from meynie household, retinue, from Old French mesnie, ultimately from Latin mansion-, mansio dwelling]