lowly

low or inferior in station or quality

• “a humble cottage”
• “a lowly parish priest”
• “a modest man of the people”
• “small beginnings”

inferior in rank or status

• “the junior faculty”
• “a lowly corporal”
• “petty officialdom”
• “a subordinate functionary”

used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)

of low birth or station (`base'' is archaic in this sense)

• “baseborn wretches with dirty faces”
• “of humble (or lowly) birth”