An unglamorous job greasing engines.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Jamie Cullum has admitted that he is happy with his "unglamorous" lifestyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference

The so-called unglamorous part comes only when I am pushed to live a politician's life. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

As all of us know, this is hard, unglamorous work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Remarks At International Rego Conference] Reference

And yet the job had an unglamorous name at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret's Memoirs]

The work would be unglamorous and probably unpopular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Real About Health Care] Reference

You rather take the real thing, as unglamorous as it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [shiuto Diary Entry] Reference

In reality, they are as essential and unglamorous as buses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art's Faustian pact with commerce means it's no good carping about cuts] Reference

The chores assigned to the travelers are rather unglamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going to Space? First Stop: Eight Months of Grueling Training in Russia's Star City] Reference

And why do I feel compelled to tell you these unglamorous things?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zits and Stuff] Reference

Despite the unglamorous treatment it was clear where Alexis got her looks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Truth]

And she decided to store these ridiculous things that were so unglamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2007] Reference

The service has been given the unglamorous name Google Code Project Hosting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google challenges SourceForge in open source project hosting] Reference

Gabourey Sidibe debuts in what must be the most unglamorous role of the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queer Sighted] Reference

DNS was the unglamorous underbelly of the Internet, but it had amazing powers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web] Reference

And then we did the interview in a really unglamorous place, i.e. the car park.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2007] Reference

And you'll primarily use the most unglamorous, Web 1.0 club in the bag: e-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betray Us: A Missed Opportunity?] Reference

"" What shocked me is how unglamorous it is to put those things on, '' lang says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Cross Dresser] Reference

I was made immortal in a most unglamorous way, without status, without recognition.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 o' clock] Reference

Most veteran reporters will tell you covering wars is unglamorous and very dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005] Reference

I started in stock (decidedly unglamorous) and within two years I was assist-ant manager.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Journey to the Top] Reference

It was really fun to watch Mr. Woods play golf, and his stand-ins were likable but unglamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed] Reference

In the end, it may be the unglamorous labor of canvassers like those in Homestead that matters most.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SWING VOTE: COMING OF AGE] Reference

When the British government needed advice on a decidedly unglamorous vaccine project, the task fell to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Search For Solutions] Reference

He eschewed sound bites, gaining a reputation instead as a hard worker who took on unglamorous but important tasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

That's the magic of the music-publishing business, the unheralded and unglamorous sibling to the flashy recording industry.    From Wordnik.com.  ['How Sweet It Is . . .'] Reference

The girl laughed, and tramped away, gallant and somehow pathetic in her heavy boots, leggings and stout, unglamorous breeches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotted Hemlock]

Limit hold 'em is the technical and unglamorous sibling to no-limit hold 'em, the variety of poker most often seen on television.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Says Robots Can't Bluff?] Reference

People who saw Kathy Bates and Kenneth Welsh on stage scoffed at the idea of casting Pfeiffer and Pacino in these unglamorous roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Over Easy, Hold The Mayo] Reference

But the hottest business in post-WTO China will not be IT but T-- the old-fashioned, labor-intensive, unglamorous world of textiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Rags To Riches] Reference

I'm not typically a fan of banality, but the banality of the unglamorous life is precisely what I found so refreshing about America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of Inopportunity] Reference

But I wanted to have something more private and something that fit my personality a little bit more which is as unglamorous as it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference

With a metropolitan area of 1 million people, it's been Spain's smoggy, unglamorous capital of steelmaking, shipbuilding and banking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Basque-Ing In Glory] Reference

Over time, however, air power proved tremendously effective in the unglamorous role it had long shunned: attacking enemy ground forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boots, Bytes And Bombs] Reference

Not to mention that working in fashion, and more specifically, working as a stylist, is physically exhausting and supremely unglamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog Days of Fashion: Why is This Industry so Damn Ruff?] Reference

Marriott has devised a tax-efficient way to get a fat price for two of its unglamorous businesses: food service and facilities management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping It In The Family] Reference