nonglamorous

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Recent Examples of nonglamorous Her essay about the real, nonglamorous work of farming is a must-read for anyone who has romanticized the pursuit. SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonglamorous
Adjective
  • But with users, one unglamorous application of Clay’s software was resonating above all: go-to-market efforts, centered mostly on the spreadsheet part.
    Alex Konrad, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Funding an unglamorous job Hyperion has been in operation since 1925, and underwent its last major upgrade in the 1990s.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But if Naples’s gaudy decadence is hot on social media, the city is also experiencing a much more unromantic, enduring and crude degradation that is engulfing the youth from its poorer quarters.
    Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • For now, utilities are likely planning to use some fossil fuels to meet short-term demand, because these facilities are more familiar and much quicker to integrate into the grid than renewable sources, Larsen told me.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Dexter: Resurrection has booked another familiar name.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Nonglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonglamorous. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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