Meaning of Menial | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A servant, especially a domestic servant.
2. A person who has a subservient nature.

Equivalents

Examples

““Nay, Dame Mary,” answered the Knight, “it is enough you desire such an attendant.—Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials—a lady's page—it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall, fan them when they slumber, and touch the lute for them when they please to listen; […]””

“But the young man was conscious, at the same moment, that it had ceased to be a matter of serious regret to him that the little American flirt should be “talked about” by low-minded menials.”

“Was this stupid system, so cruel, so crushing, and producing at the top such absurd results as flashy, insolent autos and silly palaces and overfed, overdressed women, and dogs in jeweled collars, and babies of wealth brought up by low menials—was this system really the best?”

“He told me that princes, jeds, and even jeddaks of the outer world, were among the menials who served the yellow race; […]”

“The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.”

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