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Menial vs Sordid - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
  • Of or relating to unskilled work. (rfex)
  • servile; low; mean
  • His sister was a menial girl, but he sought to help her develop a mind of her own.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A servant, especially a domestic servant.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , 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.
  • sordid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dirty or squalid.
  • Morally degrading.
  • * 1912 ,
  • 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.
  • Grasping.
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * sordidity * sordidly * sordidness

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