: 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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As recently as this past March, Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, added more color to her son’s very unglamorous lifestyle, describing a visit to his house.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 June 2026
What changes is the wiring—the messy, unglamorous, deeply organizational work of connecting AI to the systems where business actually happens.
—Irfan Khan, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Stand your ground — that matters — but don’t be too proud to do the unglamorous work.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
The years of unglamorous, expensive, uncertain work required to prove a reusable rocket or edit an extinct genome are the same years that make the result nearly impossible to replicate at speed.
—Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 May 2026
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 June 2026
What changes is the wiring—the messy, unglamorous, deeply organizational work of connecting AI to the systems where business actually happens.
—Irfan Khan, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Stand your ground — that matters — but don’t be too proud to do the unglamorous work.
—Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 June 2026
The years of unglamorous, expensive, uncertain work required to prove a reusable rocket or edit an extinct genome are the same years that make the result nearly impossible to replicate at speed.
—Ethan Stone, USA Today, 29 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for unglamorous
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“Unglamorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unglamorous. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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