Definition of "menials" [menials]

• Plural form of menial. (noun)

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• "Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad."
• "Every white Southerner, who wants peons beneath him, who believes in hereditary menials and a privileged aristocracy, or who hates certain races because of their characteristics, would resent this."
• "The average jumbo team numbered twenty-two drillers, twenty-one chuck tenders who positioned the points of the steel bits on the rock, and five nippers, the lowly menials assigned to feeding fresh steel to the drillers and tenders."