The phrase "lowly work" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to menial or unimportant tasks or jobs. Example: Despite her impressive education and qualifications, Sarah was not too proud to take on lowly work as a dishwasher in order to make ends meet while she searched for a job in her field.
At 22, he took a lowly work placement in elBulli, a restaurant on the Catalan coast.
Instead, Britain has, at the top, lucrative services jobs for the highly-qualified and, at the bottom, lowly work hoovering offices and manning tills.
Sutter's early and relatively lowly work at Boeing took in engine and flight control issues on the propeller-driven Boeing Stratocruiser transcontinental airliner.
But had events gone another way, this would be a rather different memoir.Once he gleaned what he could from books, Mr Walker sought lowly work at wineries in California to learn more about the business.
On the one hand, he finishes "The Accordion" with information about his family's diaspora and the news that he wrote it on the subway after a hard day's lowly work, and, on the other, he offers an anecdote about an accordion-playing ancestor that might be entirely fictitious and is grandly unverifiable.
But he tells everyone who will listen that he is too talented for such lowly work, and he thinks he may be able to prove it when he spots Dean (Dane DeHaan) at a Chateau Marmont party.
At the time learning to type smacked of lowly clerical work.
What was once a festive communal activity has become lowly, lonely work.
The idea that such lowly-paid work in a $2bn industry is equivalent to slavery is leant weight by the 13th amendment of the US constitution.
"My dissertation supervisor, Everett Hughes, loved the idea that anything you see in the lowly kind of work is there in privileged work, too, only they don't talk about it," he says.
The lowliest guards working for private security companies are far better paid than their counterparts in the police.
