unglamorous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Noncombat ships are the unglamorous workhorses of military deployments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 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
Claffey may be charming, and he cleans up well, but the series isn’t shy about showing how unglamorous life can be for people on the lower rungs of Westerosi society.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
It’s boring and unglamorous and 100 times more effective at protecting your money than a passive index fund that has to buy every piece of garbage in the Bloomberg Aggregate.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025
There’s also a very practical reason for clambering up and down mountains, or doing anything arduous and unglamorous, what PIH-ers called “scut work.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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