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
“The solid, profitable, but unglamorous world of investment banking,” is how Benjamin J. Stein later described it in Barron’s.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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