unglamorous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But I am asking you to stop ignoring the very real, very unglamorous savings quietly sitting inside your grocery store’s app each week.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
VC: Athletes always get asked about the unglamorous work behind the wins.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
The Eaton catalog is unglamorous: switchgear, circuit breakers, power-distribution units.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
In part, this had to do with his personality: He was an unglamorous, somewhat dour character.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
His story makes clear that education is a long, unglamorous, even demeaning process—a nurturing never natural to the person one was before one entered a classroom.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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