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unglamorously

  • a word derived from glamorous.
    glamorous
    adjective
    full of glamour; charmingly or fascinatingly attractive, especially in a mysterious or magical way.

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There are other, legal factors making the sport faster, advancements in technology, training and, notably but unglamorously, in-competition nutrition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

As you shelter in place, unglamorously, you could do worse than pull a wig down from the shelf and sing along.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2020

Some what unglamorously though, it took place in a sports hall in Manchester.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2018

What if the real way forward weren’t a great leap but grinding, tedious, unglamorously incremental change—what George Eliot called “meliorism”?

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

It means working unglamorously, off the books, and making sure that photographs of your new self stay off the internet.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2016