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Recent Examples of unglamorous
This is a time for doing the tough, often unglamorous job of making the city function for all New Yorkers.
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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
Long before that, his son worked hard to be a servant leader, combatting a silver-spoon stigma by working as a ballboy, among other unglamorous jobs.
—Michael Silver, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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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
Long before that, his son worked hard to be a servant leader, combatting a silver-spoon stigma by working as a ballboy, among other unglamorous jobs.
—Michael Silver, New York Times, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglamorous
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even on a dusty tarmac with the car riding on decidedly unexotic Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires (the same rubber that was used to set its official 0–60 and quarter-mile times), the Nevera leapt off the line without a hint of wheelspin.—
Bradley Iger,
Ars Technica,
17 Aug. 2022
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Benefit’s popular cherry-red Benetint started life in 1976 as a nipple stain made for exotic dancers out of rose petals and carmine and later commercialized for the unexotic rest of us.—
Linda Wells,
Town & Country,
16 Apr. 2021
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglamorous. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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