: not excitingly attractive : not glamorous
unglamorous work
… only 80 pay to enter this unglamorous, graffiti-scarred brick building with views of the Thames.—
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But a part of humanizing us has to be rooted in the mundane and unglamorous, too.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
But these unglamorous, proletarian quarters will contrast with the day of pomp and high ceremony that follows.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 May 2025
Houston’s season has been marked by an unglamorous but unshakable hustle, and this group is ahead of schedule in terms of both winning games and developing identity.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Echoing the event’s ethos of challenging corporate interests and billionaires, labor organizers focused on one of the entertainment industry’s most crucial but unglamorous roles made a fiery unionization pitch to the reported 36,000 attendees.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2025
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Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
But these unglamorous, proletarian quarters will contrast with the day of pomp and high ceremony that follows.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 6 May 2025
Houston’s season has been marked by an unglamorous but unshakable hustle, and this group is ahead of schedule in terms of both winning games and developing identity.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Echoing the event’s ethos of challenging corporate interests and billionaires, labor organizers focused on one of the entertainment industry’s most crucial but unglamorous roles made a fiery unionization pitch to the reported 36,000 attendees.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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