: 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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Celebrate the unglamorous work of keeping AI systems fair, compliant and traceable.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
This is a time for doing the tough, often unglamorous job of making the city function for all New Yorkers.
—Scott Stringer, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
This is, of course, a very different property world to Trump's, whose father Fred amassed an unglamorous fortune building apartments, then watched his son turn the family business into a glitzy real-estate empire.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Despite their unglamorous nature, these sectors represent essential services.
—Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
This is a time for doing the tough, often unglamorous job of making the city function for all New Yorkers.
—Scott Stringer, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
This is, of course, a very different property world to Trump's, whose father Fred amassed an unglamorous fortune building apartments, then watched his son turn the family business into a glitzy real-estate empire.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Despite their unglamorous nature, these sectors represent essential services.
—Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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