Menial vs Sordid - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)
servile; low; mean
A servant, especially a domestic servant.
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, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}
A person who has a subservient nature.
Dirty or squalid.
Morally degrading.
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Grasping.
Menial is a related term of sordid.
As adjectives the difference between menial and sordid
is that menial is of or relating to work normally performed by a servant while sordid is dirty or squalid.As a noun menial
is a servant, especially a domestic servant.menial
English
(wikipedia menial)Adjective
(en adjective)- His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.
Noun
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sordid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.