How To Use Unglamorous In A Sentence
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The unglamorous, blue-collar work of defence was always the priority.
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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.
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A church planter has to accept the humble, unglamorous role.
Christianity Today
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Like housework, it's a thankless and unglamorous job.
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His father was a hero of the revolution and he did his time in unglamorous jobs in unglamorous places, serving his political apprenticeship.
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The artist-rights movement ‘is an unglamorous, unfun, unsexy part of this business that the public won't find fascinating,’ Kramer adds.
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His main sport was the unglamorous pursuit of golf, for which he gained a blue at Oxford.
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Yet it's often these realistic, unglamorous details which give his women their grace, their vitality, their uncensored sensuality.
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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.
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Throughout all the hullabaloo and spurious handwringing, the one constant was Booker, whose profits derived largely from the unglamorous cash-and-carry trade.
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And the unglamorous, unobjectionable truth is that we don't experience film history in order.
The Times Literary Supplement
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When she slips into her skimpy silver two-piece in an unglamorous conference centre in Bournemouth she'll be confident that her sass and style will shine through as she shimmies down the catwalk.
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Becky Sharp, Thackeray's anti-hero in Vanity Fair, lived beyond her means and rarely paid her bills, particularly those she owed to "tradespeople" who had provided her with basic but unglamorous services.
Carl Pope: Is America the New Becky Sharp?
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The unglamorous, blue-collar work of defence was always the priority.
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The process is arduous and unglamorous.
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It was not one of the main group of eight, but was relegated to a second tier unglamorously called the "Plus Five" countries (along with India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico).
China Faces the Challenges of International Leadership
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Her job has often seen her in the very unglamorous position of driving to the location of a broken-down vehicle and being there in the middle of the night dealing with the problem.
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Perhaps this is a subtle statement on the unglamorous reality of commercialised sex, but the witty script resists such neat categorisations.
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The symbol of the failure of East Germany swiftly became the Trabant, the small, unglamorous, underpowered national car of East Germany, which looked so pathetic next to the powerful Mercedes and BMWs that flaunted the economic power of West Germany.
Zero-Sum Future
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Realities: It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct, a centrist policy.
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Now there are two rival bids for this unglamorous business.
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
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It also enjoys great support from an army of volunteers who help out throughout the year, doing a variety of unglamorous tasks such as mail-outs.
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According to Myles, such a supertrack is the only way to make greyhound racing seem remotely interesting to a population which sees it as outdated and unglamorous.
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And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis.
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This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
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Just as importantly, their film of his life sets out to put on screen an unglamorous, ‘ordinary’ protagonist.
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She works in an ultramodern public relations firm, and her world contrasts greatly with Kristoffer and Geir's unglamorous job.
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Their work is hard and unglamorous, and most people would find it boring.
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My suggestion would be that she agrees with her husband a programme of sustained, unglamorous work with a reliable patronage while she finds her feet.
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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This is the distinctly unglamorous reality: doing it all.
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Now there are two rival bids for this unglamorous business.
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Before I discovered the truck, I hadnt noticed the brand name of the unglamorously packaged one-dollar pound cakes stacked in a freestanding display at the end of the bread aisle at Shoppers food market: Capitol Cake Company.
Let Me Eat Cake
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There is a very unglamorous fridge, stuffed with browning apples, cheap champagne and bottles of Evian water, a box of tissues and seven rather grubby spoons.
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As elite players unglamorously striving to become NBA head coaches for the first time, they're in select company.
NBA legends paying their dues as coaches
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County cricket may be unglamorous but it is the bedrock of the nation 's summer sport.
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And if it does turn out to be the gateway to a new life, that is one that will have to be built over time and unglamorously with the unpromising materials of the old one.
What's wrong with weddings
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Twickenham had been muted and unglamorous all day, and yet a rather tepid presentation ceremony for the Cook Cup could not mask England's satisfaction.
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The name "portobello" began to be used in the 1980s as a brilliant marketing ploy to popularize an unglamorous mushroom that, more often than not, had to be disposed of because growers couldn't sell them.
Languagehat.com: PORTOBELLO.
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The temptation to sneer at unglamorous backwaters - and few of us can resist firing cheap shots at towns like Grimsby - seems to be overwhelming.
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According to Christopher Drew of the New York Times, who visited Davis-Monthan where Air National Guard members handle the controls, the pilots sit unglamorously "at 1990s-style computer banks filled with screens, inside dimly lit trailers.
Tom Engelhardt: Terminator Planet
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Yes, we buy much of it in distinctly unglamorous chemists or from huge stacks at duty-free outlets.
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The Rev David Knight, rural dean for Shipston deanery, said the money would be spent on ‘necessary but unglamorous’ masonry and glazing repairs.
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Her unglamorous look was her stock-in-trade while her professional skills always kept her in high demand on stage, film, radio and television.
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The rear party's jobs were unglamorous, but we could not have survived without it.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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Reagan's massive military buildup had sacrificed unglamorous functions like transport ships "sealift" and minesweepers to pay for high-tech programs like "Star Wars," stealth technology, fighter aircraft, attack subs and cruise missiles.
Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
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She described her look for the film as ‘completely unglamorous, almost no make-up, bit of a dumpy potato’.
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The movie has fascinating echoes and anticipations of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about fear among the officer classes.
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It will also require a great deal of hard, technical and politically unglamorous work.
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It is time to do the unglamorous job of sweating the assets a bit harder.
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Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.
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This accolade was accompanied by the wonderful spectacle of dweeby scientists getting narked because they invent everything yet remain unloved and unglamorous.
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Shapiro bills the series as an unglamorous look at life in the clink and the power of music as a means of rehabilitation.
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The work is often unglamorous and yields few headlines, and that makes it all the more vital.
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On the face of it, coming up with and implementing these changes is dull, unglamorous work.
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Most arrived at this condition as industry tumbled in the latter half of the past century; earlier they had been hard-edged, unglamorous communities of strivers.
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The pig whisperer: Author Jeffrey Masson explores the emotions of - and cruelty inflicted upon - the most unglamorous animals
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Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.
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Their task has been consistent and unglamorous: encourage learning up to a prescribed level and foster social discipline.
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an unglamorous job greasing engines
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Their ministerial responsibilities, however unglamorous, matter to thousands of people, as the family credit fiasco showed.
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I also want them to see how unglamorous the process is.
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The days of playing unglamorous locations like the South Morang Hotel are all over.
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A female member of the mediacracy can now seize the bully pulpit for all women without needing to give even lip service to those women whose lives, unglamorously enough, are more blue collar than blue state.
Rhymes With Rich
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The process is arduous and unglamorous.
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The movie has fascinating echoes and anticipations of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about braggadocio and fear among the officer classes.
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But another problem has been a chronic shortage of permanent staff in an unglamorous field of nursing, which has led to the use of agency nurses.
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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Because she gives quantities of money to unglamorous charities, and is especially munificent towards orphans?
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The process is arduous and unglamorous.
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Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift).
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A lumbering fish with legs might seem a rather unglamorous ancestor.
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Which is especially unglamorous for me as I grew up about 10 miles away from there and it was the nearest big town, so I know everything there is to know about it.
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It's an unglamorous performance and the director makes full use of her hard, hawkish features.
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Instead, the headquarters are situated in a squat, brick building which seems rather unglamorous for the world of radio.
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It was seen as a shockingly unglamorous approach at a time when fashion, still very much about class, was shown on impossibly aloof models in carefully posed, static shots.
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She has built a remarkable career on roles that are often decidedly unglamorous, yet always eye-catching and compellingly real.
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Their activity is often unglamorous and rarely acknowledged.
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The Wardrobe, St Peter's Square, FriMarc RowlandsElectronic disco dudes Dollop's hijacking of the rather unglamorously named CitiPost Warehouse which was formerly known as simply the Scrutton Street Warehouse sadly comes to an end this Friday evening.
Clubs picks of the week
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But that takes unglamorous hard and dedicated work.
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The modern treasure hunt is a distinctly unglamorous affair.
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A lot of filming takes place in this rather unglamorous studio.
The Sun
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Did the dirty, unglamorous work very well.
The Sun
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Yet it's often these realistic, unglamorous details which give his women their grace, their vitality, their uncensored sensuality.