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  • adverb In an unglamorous manner.

Etymologies

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unglamorous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The Wardrobe, St Peter's Square, FriMarc RowlandsElectronic disco dudes Dollop's hijacking of the rather unglamorously named CitiPost Warehouse which was formerly known as simply the Scrutton Street Warehouse sadly comes to an end this Friday evening.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • And if it does turn out to be the gateway to a new life, that is one that will have to be built over time and unglamorously with the unpromising materials of the old one.

    What's wrong with weddings 2010

  • As elite players unglamorously striving to become NBA head coaches for the first time, they're in select company.

    NBA legends paying their dues as coaches 2008

  • It was not one of the main group of eight, but was relegated to a second tier unglamorously called the "Plus Five" countries (along with India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico).

    China Faces the Challenges of International Leadership Deborah Seligsohn 2010

  • It was not one of the main group of eight, but was relegated to a second tier unglamorously called the "Plus Five" countries (along with India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico).

    Deborah Seligsohn: China Faces the Challenges of International Leadership 2010

  • Before I discovered the truck, I hadnt noticed the brand name of the unglamorously packaged one-dollar pound cakes stacked in a freestanding display at the end of the bread aisle at Shoppers food market: Capitol Cake Company.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • According to Christopher Drew of the New York Times, who visited Davis-Monthan where Air National Guard members handle the controls, the pilots sit unglamorously "at 1990s-style computer banks filled with screens, inside dimly lit trailers."

    Tom Engelhardt: Terminator Planet 2009

  • Before I discovered the truck, I hadnt noticed the brand name of the unglamorously packaged one-dollar pound cakes stacked in a freestanding display at the end of the bread aisle at Shoppers food market: Capitol Cake Company.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • A female member of the mediacracy can now seize the bully pulpit for all women without needing to give even lip service to those women whose lives, unglamorously enough, are more blue collar than blue state.

    Rhymes With Rich 2006

  • A female member of the mediacracy can now seize the bully pulpit for all women without needing to give even lip service to those women whose lives, unglamorously enough, are more blue collar than blue state.

    Rhymes With Rich 2006

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