0 not glamorous (= especially attractive and exciting):
unglamorous work/surroundings
By comparison, monasteries, while sufficiently disliked, were unglamorous and little understood.
Meanwhile, crouching in their circle of wagons down in the valley we have the unglamorous, rationalistic individualists.
In reality, it is from backstage, a very unglamorous and even chaotic world with virtually no relation to the illusion the audience sees onstage.
However, this paper has argued that we would perhaps do better to see the future as an equally flawed and unglamorous version of the present.
But she neglected to mention the unglamorous reality of the female share of technological society: women were bound to household tasks just as much as they had been before.
This may sound rather unglamorous and certainly very humdrum.
Some members felt that that was somewhat unglamorous and chose to rename it "the convention".
Our work is often unglamorous, it can be stressful and not particularly spectacular, but our goals are great, and so much is expected of us.