unglamourous

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Sure, all that stuff was ugly, unglamourous, and buggy, but it got the work done.

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not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

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adjective

not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for unglamourous.

adjective

not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

See also: commonplace, humdrum, prosaic, unglamorous

Example sentences

Sure, all that stuff was ugly, unglamourous, and buggy, but it got the work done.

Keep it unglamourous, supply low, and demand high.

This would have been boring, unglamourous and offered at most a few percent growth.

It seems "just" using open source code is unglamourous in this industry.

It means an unglamourous job where you just ignore everything else and go in and do what needs to be done.

If you are a capitalist that cares about maximizing profit, this unfortunately means having a railroad that looks like a slow kludge, because it means making unglamourous stops in unglamourous towns.

Since the realities of software development means the bulk of the engineers will probably be working on some small part of an unglamourous project, yet the "big 4" still want a monopoly on the best and the brightest, the interview process exists as a very targeted test to find people willing to jump through hoops.