: 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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Somewhere in between these extremes is the unglamorous, frequently tedious work of chipping away at an idea, a sequence, or line of dialogue that gets to the heart of what a scribe wants to say — or more precisely, hopes to communicate.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
The Sac River is to Yosemite what Ernest Borgnine was to Paul Newman – an interesting if unglamorous character actor clearly not ready for a close-up, especially when compared to a handsome marquee star.
—Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
From her home office at 148 Greenwich Street—then a cramped and unglamorous neighborhood, now a glassy office building across the street from the September 11th memorial—Restell sold emmenagogues in the form of pills, powders, and tinctures.
—Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
The decidedly unglamorous costumes represent how the cast would dress for an audition.
—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
The rapper lifestyle has rarely sounded so unglamorous.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023
But the need is still for unglamorous negotiating, and that heart still beats, too.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
Today glia are known to help regulate metabolism, protect neurons and clean up cellular waste—critical but unglamorous roles.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
And the bills for years of deferred maintenance on the unglamorous machinery of state government are coming due, said Seth DiStefano, the policy outreach director at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, a nonprofit.
—Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
The Sac River is to Yosemite what Ernest Borgnine was to Paul Newman – an interesting if unglamorous character actor clearly not ready for a close-up, especially when compared to a handsome marquee star.
—Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
From her home office at 148 Greenwich Street—then a cramped and unglamorous neighborhood, now a glassy office building across the street from the September 11th memorial—Restell sold emmenagogues in the form of pills, powders, and tinctures.
—Moira Donegan, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
The decidedly unglamorous costumes represent how the cast would dress for an audition.
—Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
The rapper lifestyle has rarely sounded so unglamorous.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 19 Dec. 2023
But the need is still for unglamorous negotiating, and that heart still beats, too.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
Today glia are known to help regulate metabolism, protect neurons and clean up cellular waste—critical but unglamorous roles.
—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
And the bills for years of deferred maintenance on the unglamorous machinery of state government are coming due, said Seth DiStefano, the policy outreach director at the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, a nonprofit.
—Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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