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How to use unflattering in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word unflattering? Here are some examples.

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At North Sea, cons regularly slip unflattering press cuttings under the door of Archer's cell in a fruitless effort to rile the peer.
Why would she choose to wear such a horrendously unflattering dress? It just does nothing for her.
A woman in Florida wrote some rather unflattering remarks about a local sheriff in the newspaper.
Exclamation marks suggest a certain unflattering ingratiation, especially in letters written to strangers.
What do we imagine they are like, these disagreeable reflections, these unflattering mirrors that our thoughts provide?
Amidst the other attractions was the opportunity to handle a snake, and here's an unflattering picture of yours truly with a boa constrictor.
Not only does it offer an unflattering view of her stomach and corset-bra, but it appears to be throttling her.
My fears of an unflattering portrait with a Pinocchio nose begin to recede.
She suffered for her craft by putting on weight, shaving her eyebrows and wearing tons of unflattering makeup.
You know, it doesn't even show the military in an unflattering light, it's more warts-and-all kind of thing.
By the 1820s it had become common to attribute definable features to the age, usually in unflattering terms.
She sits for her entire first act with a single beam of light on her face, which is boldly unflattering but dramatic, and who can hate that?
Almost six months ago, foreign-policy macher Perle vowed to sue him for writing an unflattering feature about him in The New Yorker.
She claims, however, the book casts her in an unflattering light and has cost her her job and her reputation.
The historical records that paint such an unflattering portrait of the town have just been released on the internet.
My only gripe is that it becomes a decidedly unflattering portrait of a man who will always be known as a funny genius.
What do these unflattering portraits tell us about the current status of designers?
How can you criticise someone in such unflattering terms, and then suggest that he has what it takes to lead their party?
An unflattering painting of the Queen Mother has surfaced after being quietly kept from public view for more than 25 years.
I think there is a lot of truth in that statement even if it does paint an unflattering portrait.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Already he could feel that hate was a strong passion, not unflattering to its object.
He is a rival before whom your senses wince as before some unflattering image.
Tuckerman speaks of this portrait as inelegant and unflattering, and characterizes the artist as unideal, but conscientious.
He was apologetic for his unflattering doubt, but of what sort was she?
Those unflattering shoulder nobbles, the shrinking chest and skeletal arms and legs even manage to make her slimline sidekick Sarah look relatively shapely.
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