: 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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In the Great Flattening, the premium shifts to utility and the hard, unglamorous capacity to execute with consistency.
—George Pesansky, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
The unglamorous but essential part of AI is cleaning data and building reliable pipelines to feed information into the system.
—Aleksandra Bal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The adaptation, directed by Hunger Games alum Francis Lawrence, doesn't shy away from the unglamorous reality of the totalitarian state in which it is set, nor the contest in which its young protagonists must keep walking or be killed.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The resulting four-part docuseries takes viewers into the newsroom to witness the unglamorous work of journalists cross-checking sources, fleshing out scoops and building investigations, all while being actively undermined by a president who denounced them as liars and crooks.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
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George Pesansky, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
The unglamorous but essential part of AI is cleaning data and building reliable pipelines to feed information into the system.
—Aleksandra Bal, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The adaptation, directed by Hunger Games alum Francis Lawrence, doesn't shy away from the unglamorous reality of the totalitarian state in which it is set, nor the contest in which its young protagonists must keep walking or be killed.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
The resulting four-part docuseries takes viewers into the newsroom to witness the unglamorous work of journalists cross-checking sources, fleshing out scoops and building investigations, all while being actively undermined by a president who denounced them as liars and crooks.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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