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Recent Examples of unglamorous
The Pirates have the National League’s worst record in the three decades since Barry Bonds left them, but did the unglamorous opponent induce Padres fans to spend the afternoon at the beach?
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
The company created its influencer marketing program in 2019 with the idea that moving, though unglamorous, might benefit from the same kind of spon-con that makes beauty products and fast fashion go viral.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 28 May 2025
But with the terrifying, unglamorous decision to move the 80 percent toward something better than instinct.
—Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
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.
—Stanley Reed, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
The company created its influencer marketing program in 2019 with the idea that moving, though unglamorous, might benefit from the same kind of spon-con that makes beauty products and fast fashion go viral.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 28 May 2025
But with the terrifying, unglamorous decision to move the 80 percent toward something better than instinct.
—Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2025
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.
—Stanley Reed, New York Times, 14 Apr. 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 6 Jul. 2025.
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