(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige:

｟けなして｠ 〖通例名詞の前で〗技術を要しない, 低賃金の〈仕事など〉

e.g. menial factory jobs.

attributive dated (of a servant) domestic.

a person with a menial job.

｟やや古｠ 下働き, 召使い

dated a domestic servant.

menially adverb

late Middle English (in the sense ‘domestic’): from Old French, from mesnee ‘household’.