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US
/ənˈɡɫæmɝəs/
]
[ UK /ʌnɡlˈæməɹəs/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɡlˈæməɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
an unglamorous job greasing engines
How To Use unglamorous In A Sentence
- The unglamorous, blue-collar work of defence was always the priority. Times, Sunday Times
- In contrast to the romantic dreams of heady cup successes, these are crucial league points in the ongoing and often unglamorous business of defining our league status.
- A church planter has to accept the humble, unglamorous role. Christianity Today
- Like housework, it's a thankless and unglamorous job.
- His father was a hero of the revolution and he did his time in unglamorous jobs in unglamorous places, serving his political apprenticeship. Times, Sunday Times
- The artist-rights movement ‘is an unglamorous, unfun, unsexy part of this business that the public won't find fascinating,’ Kramer adds.
- His main sport was the unglamorous pursuit of golf, for which he gained a blue at Oxford.
- Yet it's often these realistic, unglamorous details which give his women their grace, their vitality, their uncensored sensuality.
- What we need to do - all of us - is be there, not just at the birth (with or without the camcorder) but all the time, for all the ordinary, unglamorous joys and worries and griefs.
- Throughout all the hullabaloo and spurious handwringing, the one constant was Booker, whose profits derived largely from the unglamorous cash-and-carry trade.