Sentence examples for more menial from inspiring English sources

Some of this is plain discrimination, particularly where the more menial types of government work are concerned.

A student is a bit more prone to offer rationale as to why they took a more menial job.

She no longer notates individual candle wrappers with poems, and she's delegated some of the more menial production tasks.

(There are more menial tasks, as well: she spent a morning during the team's training camp in Knoxville, Tenn., at a laundromat washing swimmers' sweatsuits and T-shirts).

The bored civil servants were also more prone to rate their health worse and to be less active and have more menial jobs.

Such insouciance at plants inside China would lead laborers to be punished, for example by being sent home for the day, losing pay, forfeiting benefits, or being reassigned to more menial tasks.

While she valued "work" more than menial jobs, she believed that work did not belong in the public arena of "deeds and action," and specifically of politics.

But then there are the more common menial positions, like Amazon's "pickers," who scurry throughout the massive warehouses plucking item after item for shipment, or Walmart's "lumpers," who load and unload trucks throughout the day, sometimes paid according to "piece rate" to encourage them to work faster.

Sounds utterly counterproductive to time management, but trying to work too quickly or multitask on anything more than menial tasks can end up wasting time.

Re "More Than a Menial Job" (editorial, April 17): If welfare is ever to be eliminated, it cannot be achieved on the backs of inadequately nurtured children.

By providing help with tuition and with residency documents, the federal law would allow those who graduate from college to strive for more than the menial jobs they must often accept because of their status.