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

• Singlish is crude precisely because it's rooted in Singapore's unglamorous past.
• Launched as 911's unglamorous cousin, 311 service is proving to be a vehicle for urban reform.
• His is gritty, unglamorous workmounting sign-up booths at bodegas, analyzing census tracts, training school-board candidates.

• commonplace
• humdrum
• prosaic
• unglamourous

News & Articles

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• BYO Smores: Artist Runs Rooftop Camp-Outs, This Weekend And Beyond
  Since 2011, Brooklyn-based artist Thomas Stevenson has organized urban camping excursions—where the destination is not state parks or wooded forests but rather industrial, unglamorous, utterly rustic-in-their-own-way New York City rooftops. During Stevenson's four-night adventure this Thursday through Sunday, 15...
  June 12, 2013 - Curbed New York
• Vera Wang honored for lifetime fashion passion
  By Samantha Critchell Vera Wang, arguably the queen of red-carpet dressing, didn’t go into the fashion business with stars in her eyes. She knew about its unglamorous side, ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Mckeesport Daily News

Quotes

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• Douglas Alexander in International Herald Tribune
  The responsible way forward is to continue the often unglamorous, but important and quiet diplomatic work to get our personnel home,Alexander told the British Broadcasting Corp.
• Jenna Bush in KHOU
  I wanted to have something more private and something my personality a little bit more, as unglamorous as it is,Bush said.
• Michael Chertoff in ABC News
  Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says if Congress wants to give him more money, he would rather use it for something "unglamorous but necessary," such as upgrading information technology systems in the citizenship and immigration...