unflattering

Speech parts

1. unflattering - Adjective

2. unflattering - Verb

Meaning

showing or representing unfavorably

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

uncomplimentary dowdy good unbecoming negative critical bad offensive plain hostile harsh adverse unpleasant awkward detrimental
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Antonyms

flattering good better lucky positive becoming
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Phrases with the word

unflattering angle

Examples

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. Toni Morrison

You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself. Katherine Webb

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice. Bill Callahan

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. Amanda Burton

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. Minna Antrim

Some women are convinced that they are the same size they were 20 years ago. They also wear clothes that are too big in an effort to hide their body. Both cases are unflattering and work against your body. Some women are in denial about changing. Stacy London

Close letter words and terms

unflatter unflatterable unflattered unflattering angle unflatteringly unflaunted