nonglamorous

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Recent Examples of nonglamorous Her essay about the real, nonglamorous work of farming is a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the pursuit. SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonglamorous
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.
    Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.
    Linda Wells, Town & Country, 16 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • This is perhaps a good quality, as that is a familiar feeling when attending a large event.
    Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • The looks on display were all too familiar, making the joke even that much funnier for its sense of radical honesty.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 4 May 2025

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“Nonglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonglamorous. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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