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menialadjective showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissivenessevery command was obeyed in the menial manner of someone who seemed grateful just to be in the presence of a celebrity abject, base, humble, servile, slavish hangdog, lamblike, sheepishdemure, lowly, meek, modest, retiring, unassuming, unpretentiousfawning, sycophant, sycophantic, toadyish arrogant, haughty, high-handed, imperious, lordly, supercilious, superior, uppity menialnouna person hired to perform household or personal servicesimmigrants to that country faced fierce prejudice and could expect to find work only as menials daily(British), domestic, flunky(also flunkey or flunkie), lackey, retainer, servant, slavey, steward butler, footman, groom, houseboy, houseman, majordomo, man, manservant, servitor, valethandmaiden(also handmaid), housekeeper, housemaid, lady-in-waiting, maid, maidservant, wench, womanassistant, attendant, companion, factotum, followerdogsbody(chiefly British), drudge, gofer(or gopher) master, mistress boss, captain, chief, foreman, head, headman, helmsman, kingpin, leader, taskmaster in the 14th century |