: 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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And perhaps there is something even uglier, such as a desire to sabotage and tear down this girl, who, through sheer, unglamorous hard work, has managed to outshine him.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
That celebration for the rapper was equally unglamorous, with breakfast options of fruit, cereal, breakfast cake and skim milk.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Use this time for the unglamorous groundwork that pays off later.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
With stunning celerity, possibility becomes probability and then certainty, as readers reject the quiet, circuitous, and unglamorous narratives of prudential compromise, ambiguous diplomacy, or incremental progress.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
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Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
That celebration for the rapper was equally unglamorous, with breakfast options of fruit, cereal, breakfast cake and skim milk.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Use this time for the unglamorous groundwork that pays off later.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
With stunning celerity, possibility becomes probability and then certainty, as readers reject the quiet, circuitous, and unglamorous narratives of prudential compromise, ambiguous diplomacy, or incremental progress.
—Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unglamorous
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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