Preposition: of

• task: Scott is even willing to assist his brothers in even the most menial of tasks.

Modifies a noun

• chore: George had to fight his way up, washing dishes, doing the most menial legal chores.

• task: Child asks parent to do some menial task which child can do for herself.

• servant: The labor of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

• job: Holding on to two menial jobs just to scrape a living is now the lot of many.

• duty: Once upon a time, Jill, Sabrina & Kelly were police officers whose skills were being wasted in menial duties.

• labor: Soldiers were often hired out by officers for menial labor.

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: The able poor were to be set to work doing fairly menial duties such as hemp picking or could be hired out.

• however: Be prepared to do anything, however menial, and stick at it.

• too: Nowhere it seems is too far for her to travel to work, or too menial a task for her to perform.

• so: Ours doesn't bother himself with anything so menial as serving food.

Used with adjective complement

• do: Think of working class p e o p l e. And yes, thsoe who do menial, jobs in the background, unthanked.

• have: I had menial, low-paid jobs and despite working a 35-40 hour week including night shifts, was getting into debt.