unglamorous

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Recent Examples of unglamorous Many are unglamorous, but critical. Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2025 While the court scenes are fascinating, Anton also writes from personal experience about the often unglamorous life of a touring rock musician. Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 25 July 2025 Stephen Jones is adding a dose of millinery pizzazz to the most unglamorous of industries — insurance. Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 23 July 2025 Her characters travel on the public transport and engage firsthand with the unglamorous but still relevant realities of a vast metropolis. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unglamorous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglamorous
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

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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglamorous. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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