: 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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Not bad for a show that was almost militantly unglamorous.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Afghanistan needs money for the unglamorous and tiresome work of training bureaucrats, which is the work that might make the largest difference in Kabul’s governance and its legitimacy.
—Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2014
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
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Yet Afghanistan needs money for the unglamorous and tiresome work of training bureaucrats, which is the work that might make the largest difference in Kabul’s governance and its legitimacy.
—Paul D. Miller, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2014
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
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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