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Meanings of unglamorous in English

Not challenging; dull and lacking excitement.

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Usage of unglamorous in English
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But its highly-educated locals largely shun the late hours and unglamorous work.
Reuters
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Production values are thrifty but resourcefully deployed to accentuate the unglamorous environment.
Reuters
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For a generally unglamorous and rather functional product, primer elicits much conversation.
The Irish Times
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In other words, it shows the unglamorous side of the jet-lag life.
Ebony
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Instead it showed an unglamorous face of dull complexity and incessant wrangling.
Atonement
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DNS was the unglamorous underbelly of the Internet, but it had amazing powers.
Wired
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That transition has put the unglamorous battery in a starring role.
Reuters
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Latecomers miss out on the unglamorous seating and make do with the floor.
Reuters
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It turned out to be about the most unglamorous thing you could imagine.
The Irish Times
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He was prosaic, unglamorous, he was of the earth, the grass.
The darkest road
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This is the unadulterated, unglamorous, unthrilling life of the drug addict.
Junky
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The French population is inflamed over one unglamorous issue: immigration.
The Irish Times
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And he held her for a bit, while she had a good, unglamorous cry.
The Fireman
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In fact, there are some moments that are downright unglamorous.
The Guardian
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Come back good old sale by private treaty - boring and unglamorous but safe.
The Irish Times
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They attend every single launch, no matter how unglamorous the payload or inhospitable the hour.
Wired
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