menialadjective
uk/ˈmiː.ni.əl/us/ˈmiː.ni.əl/disapprovingMenial work is boring, makes you feel tired, and is given a low social value:
It's fairly menial work, such as washing dishes and cleaning floors.
a menial job/task
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- NEET
- off-duty
- office junior
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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Tedious and uninspiring