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Recent Examples of unflattering
The pair have taken shots at each other over the years, with Shaq being the primary aggressor, sporadically insulting his predecessor with unflattering jokes and blatant slights.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
See All Example Sentences for unflattering
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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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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Sixty percent of Democrats have an unfavorable view of Israel, the first time most of a partisan group has felt that way.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
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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Lexington Law may be able to remove charge-offs and other derogatory marks depending on their legitimacy.—
Victor Rosario,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article CONCACAF has launched an investigation into an incident late in Tuesday’s Champions Cup match between the Colorado Rapids and LAFC in which LAFC defender Sergi Palencia allegedly used a derogatory term toward Rapids defender Chidozie Awaziem.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
26 Feb. 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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According to the Financial Times, the erroneous internal transfer occurred in April 2024 and was missed by a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was cleared to be processed at the start of business the next day.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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Our inquiry to the hospital was due to an erroneous order of a separate inpatient stay request.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
27 Feb. 2025
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Though Google made fixes to address some of the most absurd answers, AI Overview still occasionally presents inaccurate information.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
6 Mar. 2025
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Improper payments happen when the agency either overpays or underpays benefits due to inaccurate information.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
3 Mar. 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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The site that gave us milkshake duck (shorthand for discovering an overnight celebrity’s racist, sexist, or otherwise objectionable posts) has, post-2022, contributed noticeably less in the way of argot.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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In his first go-around as president, his name was considered so objectionable that six residential buildings on Riverside Boulevard went to great effort and expense (costs were estimated at as high as $1 million per building) to remove it from their facades.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unflattering. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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