unglamorous

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ glamorous.

Adjective

unglamorous (comparative more unglamorous, superlative most unglamorous)

  1. Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
    • 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
      Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
    • 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 38:
      And at the unglamorous end of upgrade work, it plans to improve drainage.

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