: not excitingly attractive : not glamorous
unglamorous work
… only 80 pay to enter this unglamorous, graffiti-scarred brick building with views of the Thames.—
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Tim Cook’s path to becoming Apple’s CEO started with an unglamorous job: waking up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers.
—Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
One of the world’s most consumed, most convenient, and least wasteful types of dairy, in contrast, occupies a space about the size of a beach cooler, on the bottom shelf in an unglamorous and highly missable corner of aisle six.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Success is built on those hard, unglamorous moments.
—Sacha Obaid, M.d., Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Several big banks have increased their starting pay for hourly workers in the past few years, in part due to the difficulty of attracting workers to these relatively unglamorous and non-remote-friendly jobs.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
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Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
One of the world’s most consumed, most convenient, and least wasteful types of dairy, in contrast, occupies a space about the size of a beach cooler, on the bottom shelf in an unglamorous and highly missable corner of aisle six.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
Success is built on those hard, unglamorous moments.
—Sacha Obaid, M.d., Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Several big banks have increased their starting pay for hourly workers in the past few years, in part due to the difficulty of attracting workers to these relatively unglamorous and non-remote-friendly jobs.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 10 Sep. 2024
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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