Boring
Menial
Menial adjective - Showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness.
Both words in one sentence
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The bulk of a page's work is shelving the books, which most consider to be boring, menial grunt work.
Source: Wax On, Wax Off - Heroes: Sylar's motivation for being a superhuman serial killer is that after his parents forced him into a boring, menial, unspecial job and he was let go by Chandra after Chandra concluded that Sylar wasn't special, Sylar wanted to be special.
- The whole point of Postal 2 is that the protagonist, an average, down-on-his-luck citizen of a simple little town can go on a mass-murdering rampage while performing boring, menial tasks that try their hardest to frustrate him.
Source: Berserk Button / Video Games
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