The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word MENIAL
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More clues leading to the result MENIAL
- Lowly soldiers face losing leader
- Servant shuffling in lame
- Servant at home recalled during dinner, say
- Humble setter turned prostrate
- Servant in upset during dinner, perhaps
- Servant returning home tucks into something to eat
- 16 turning in during dinner, for example
- Servant upset home interrupting dinner maybe
- Servant reclined, getting up after me
- Servant, at first meek, affable but no good
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What does MENIAL mean?
MENIAL noun- A servant, especially a domestic servant.
- A person who has a subservient nature.
- Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
- Of or relating to unskilled work.
- Servile; low; mean.