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Recent Examples of unflattering
The profile — based on multiple interviews with Ali along with former colleagues, friends and reporters, according to Kiefer — painted an unflattering image of Ali, alleged the plaintiff.
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Similar unflattering reporting by other news organizations only further abetted his comeback.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
At the same time, several unflattering narratives about Lively started to spread on social media.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Barred from meeting Simpson, Blackwood nevertheless managed to render an extraordinarily vivid and unflattering likeness of her elusive subject.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for unflattering
Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Similar unflattering reporting by other news organizations only further abetted his comeback.
—Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
At the same time, several unflattering narratives about Lively started to spread on social media.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Barred from meeting Simpson, Blackwood nevertheless managed to render an extraordinarily vivid and unflattering likeness of her elusive subject.
—Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unflattering
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These unfavorable political circumstances for Hochul would seem to set up a primary challenge from the left, the traditional path to denying incumbent officeholders renomination in Democratic primaries.—
David Mark,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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Amid a slew of unfavorable sports outcomes in last year’s fourth quarter, Flutter projects U.S. quarterly revenues of $1.59 billion.—
Matt Rybaltowski,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Though the pollen gunk will pass, he's concerned by a contingent of Twitter trolls who've shared uncomplimentary reviews of his recent North American tour.—
Jordan Runtagh,
PEOPLE.com,
21 Jan. 2022
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Neither party admitted to liability and each agreed to refrain from making disparaging, negative or uncomplimentary statements about the other, the document said.—
Lorraine Mirabella,
Baltimore Sun,
29 July 2022
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The term Mace used is considered derogatory, defamatory and dehumanizing for transgender people according to GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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And yet, Davis’s slight still hits different (derogatory).—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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The 2023 Economic Report Of The President published in March of 2023 was relatively disparaging of cryptoassets and DLTs.—
Lawrence Wintermeyer,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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Prior to appearing on Cunningham's show on Monday, Huggins made more disparaging remarks about Xavier.—
Emily DeLetter,
The Enquirer,
10 May 2023
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The Trump administration’s focus on the false narrative that Politico received USAID funds follows an erroneous claim by Kyle Becker, a conservative political commentator, on Wednesday.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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If the cost looks erroneous, please email content@bayareanewsgroup.com for more information.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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Maybe the most contentious issue ever to divide these two camps is whether or not to replace notoriously inaccurate human home plate umpires with less fallible machines.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
21 Feb. 2025
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A lot of us in the field, regardless of speciality, like to poke fun at how inaccurate things are depicted on television.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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For the people affected by these disasters, the idea that real estate is a perfectly safe way to store wealth is clearly untrue.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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But his explosive claim is apparently untrue in any event: The investigation began under one of Williams’s predecessors more than a year before Adams turned on Biden (the mayor had previously backed both Biden and sanctuary-city policies).—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Feb. 2025
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Sophos and Trend Micro Antivirus let parents filter objectionable content from their children's devices.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
6 Feb. 2025
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Those who find Trump’s mixing of politics and marketing objectionable are swimming against the cultural zeitgeist.—
Eric Heavner,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unflattering. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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