Crossword-Solution: MENIAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Menial | n. | Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. |
| Menial | n. | Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean. |
| Menial | n. | A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices. |
| Menial | n. | A person of a servile character or disposition. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MENIAL | anagram | AMILNE, LIMEAN, MALINE, MELIAN, MELINA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with MENIAL (5)
While many of the runaways, like Frederick Douglass, had worked as skilled craftsmen in the South, they found economic discrimination in the North limiting them to menial labor.
The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him.
Once again came the ape-man, and this time there came with him fifty fighting men, turning porters for love of the only creature in the world who might command of their fierce and haughty natures such menial service.
The moment he caught sight of Brown’s black silhouette against the sunset, he tossed down a scrap of paper with a number and called out with amiable authority: “I want my hat and coat, please; I find I have to go away at once.” Father Brown took the paper without a word, and obediently went to look for the coat; it was not the first menial work he had done in his life.
God Almighty created the Negro for a menial, he is essentially a servant." This is the reply of an ex-governor of one of our blackest states to those who contend that the negro is a problem, a "burden carried by the white people of the South," because of his ignorance and consequent inefficiency; and that the lightening of the burden depends upon more money spent, more earnest efforts made, for the schooling of the black people.
Quotes with MENIAL (3)
Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.
I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is just an employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid.
The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 57 times in crossword archives (1949–2025).