Adjective : menial work. ,menial attitudes. ,menial furnishings. From Dictionary.com.
She wiped one brush after another upon a piece of old rag, menially, on purpose. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
Although I was very afraid, my curiosity was even greater, and while menially preparing myself to face this strange character, I crossed the short distance which separated us - about seven or eight meters. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
He told the story of his angry flight, of toils and calamities on sea and shore, of his ebbing and flowing fortune in southern lands, and of his latest peril when, held a captive, he served menially in a stronghold of bandits in the Sonora Mountains of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
(though grandson of a Lord Sahib), living by horses and camels menially, out-casted, a jail-bird. From Wordnik.com. [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference
"I will write no plays; because the drama, less sublime in this, makes lower appeals, defends more menially, adopts the standard of the public taste to chalk its height on, wears a dog-chain round its regal neck, and learns to carry and fetch the fashions of the day, to please the day. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
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