unglamorous

British  

/ ʌnˈɡlæmərəs /

adjective

1. lacking in glamour, allure, or fascination

   the unglamorous side of the music business

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Example Sentences

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

It requires young people to sign up for unglamorous and sometimes dangerous jobs far from home.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like his dozens of novels — the latest a collaboration with Reese Witherspoon — it involves a, wait for it, final twist, though as a writer he’d never create characters so unglamorous.

From Los Angeles Times

The leap in its value was attributed in part to investors’ desire to acquire unglamorous yet financially well-performing shopping centers.

From Los Angeles Times

It is slow, unglamorous work for his volunteers wearing shirts and caps in party colours of ketchup red and mustard yellow, often involving speaking to groups of just a handful of voters at a time.

From Barron's