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Recent Examples of unglamorous
In Search of a Boring Business: Younger would-be chief executives are increasingly seeking profits — and freedom from the 9-to-5 — by pivoting from corporate jobs into often unglamorous small-business niches.
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Stanley Reed, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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
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Stanley Reed, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
To be fair to les frères Dardennes, there is a reliable level of unshowy competence as well as an integrity to their insistence on embedding with unglamorous, recognizable people.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglamorous
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglamorous. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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