Examples of unflattering in a Sentence
She was wearing the most unflattering outfit.
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The comparisons are mostly unflattering to The Phoenician Scheme, which is neither as touching nor as joyful as those earlier films, choked by the hermetic tidiness that occasionally haunts Anderson’s work.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
Musk and Trump have a long history of attacking publications that publish unflattering stories about them or their businesses.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
The prompt for this abrupt and rather unflattering end was, inevitably, a social media post.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Or a fairly normal young person, doing some fairly normal growing up, his every thought subjected to an unflattering X-ray vision?
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025
Musk and Trump have a long history of attacking publications that publish unflattering stories about them or their businesses.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 31 May 2025
The prompt for this abrupt and rather unflattering end was, inevitably, a social media post.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Or a fairly normal young person, doing some fairly normal growing up, his every thought subjected to an unflattering X-ray vision?
—Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unflattering. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.
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