: 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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As such transfers of power are not the norm, vice presidents can usually be found in unglamorous busy work, at best breaking tie votes in the Senate and at worst serving as White House gofers.
—Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
The building is nondescript, tucked into a decidedly unglamorous stretch of Ferndale’s industrial zone.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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
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Book Marks
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
The building is nondescript, tucked into a decidedly unglamorous stretch of Ferndale’s industrial zone.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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
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 10 Oct. 2025.
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