Adjective : the glamorous job of a foreign correspondent. From Dictionary.com.
Now they must keep the momentum going at Wigan - the kind of unglamourous venue where they have often come unstuck. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
I also got the feeling that he really doesn't care about the 'unglamourous' things in life and that he was keener to talk about my previous experience in the fashion industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Online Citizen] Reference
September 17th, 2009 JENNIFER CONNELLY and her husband PAUL BETTANY are big fans of camping holidays - because photographers refuse to trail them during the "unglamourous" breaks. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
This is normally dense, difficult, unglamourous stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Yvette Kantrow: Media Manuvers: Credit Crunch for Dummies] Reference
Marge and Lois are completely average and unglamourous. From Wordnik.com. [Fat Men and Their Thin Wives in Cartoons] Reference
If you only knew how unglamourous I feel since dealing with the after math of Hurricane Ike!. From Wordnik.com. [Winner of "Glamour" Giveaway] Reference
I find it a major annoyance to have to squint over my book and reading glasses are so terribly unglamourous and granny-ish. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
The unglamourous “bread and butter” works that seldom get written up in the newspapers near the time that they are produced, if ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Walk Up Mount Wilson] Reference
Today, the spirit of JD lives on, and Control provides an admirably unglamourous account of those heady days, while inevitably tinged with sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mondays: Control (2007)] Reference
And so this unglamourous profession attracts shady types of questionnable integrity, which is why you get so many clinic violations and issues surrounding unprofessionalism. From Wordnik.com. [Seattle Abortion Clinic Closes: clients too poor] Reference
But most of them are ones that I just know for one reason or another I'm not going to make up usually because they don't honestly suit my body type or my unglamourous lifestyle. From Wordnik.com. [Everything Must Go! - A Dress A Day] Reference
As a grassroots activist abroad for 10 years I've seen this time and time again... and I've learned how to separate the poseurs from activists: those who make rousing speeches but don't do any of the unglamourous work. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Arrigo on Shih Ming-deh's Letter Urging Chen to Resign] Reference
Afterwards, I explained that I had simply selected his company to make a point and had been pleasantly surprised at the extent of its Web 2.0 footprint (for a historic if relatively unglamourous construction products business). From Wordnik.com. [Mission-crittall « pwcom 2.0] Reference
In fact, since the modern art market was born (in the 1880s with the first sales of the hoards accumulated by the British aristocracy), the vendors have invariably cashed in on their names, realising that a piece from a named collection was worth more than one from an anonymous or unglamourous vendor. From Wordnik.com. [Art & Money] Reference
(And thatlist is just a few of the Swedes: from the Scandinavian regionthereare also Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnishand Danish authors who write similar excellent novels.) Wallander is a pretty accurate type-example of the Swedish police detective as featured in many of these books - thoughtful, sad, unglamourous, middle-aged, not big on media communication skills - though inspiring loyalty and respect from colleaguesby being good at the job. From Wordnik.com. [Wallander and Montalbano: films or books?] Reference
The "mission" (more of a project) isn't completely unglamourous. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
Originally the final was a two-legged affair, the first ever final taking place in the very unglamourous location of Wolverhampton. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference
Doing so would be unglamourous, would be hard work, and probably wouldn't get as many immediate headlines as a bid to ban websites. From Wordnik.com. [Amused Cynicism] Reference
Serena was again shunted out to Court Two but she didn't seem bothered by the unglamourous surroundings of Wimbledon's smaller show court. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
How dare this unglamourous, unthin, unwaxed spinster from a little village in the middle of nowhere go on stage and presume to have talent?. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle Herald - Maintenance Feed] Reference
Correspondence to the firm, an unglamourous address in East London, is handled by one of those companies that helps you set up companies within 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Inquirer] Reference
This woman of mass deception who told Alex to point his camera elsewhere, then points her camera in his face, no doubt getting unglamourous shots, while engaging Alex. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference
Quantum of Solace recalled the old unenjoyable Timothy Dalton Bond films of the late eighties where it was decided then to have a unglamourous, gritty and realistic Bond. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Forking Paths] Reference
Susan Boyle, the unglamourous 47-year-old who wowed judges on the TV program Britain's Got Talent, says she is "very humbled" by the public's reaction to her singing performance. From Wordnik.com. [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference
First across the line for Sky in the wind-blasted 8. 3km course somewhere in northern Doha's deeply unglamourous suburbs - starting outside an electricity sub-station and finishing a stone's throw away from a half-built supermarket - was Wiggins's team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
“the unglamourous work of building a sustainable movement has just begun.”. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: We Can Be Heroes] Reference
"Ah. Um, being a pirate turned out to be the most unglamourous job you could imagine. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Ned’s victory is important, and yet the unglamourous work of building a sustainable movement has just begun. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: We Can Be Heroes] Reference
I lead an amazingly unglamourous life, so now I'm thinking that this it was all just a thinly-disguised attempt to validate me.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
Too unglamourous for me. From Wordnik.com. [Wool over eyes -- GONE] Reference
Don't let the unglamourous name deceive you. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
This was very unglamourous. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
35-year-old winger has decided to return to action with an unglamourous team who finished ninth in the National North Two last season. From Wordnik.com. [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference
'unglamourous' experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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