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Recent Examples of unflattering
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unflattering
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Macroeconomic Vulnerability Broadcom’s stock has exhibited lower resilience during unfavorable market conditions compared to the overall market.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The deal allegedly promised Netanyahu positive coverage in Mozes’ newspaper Yediot Ahronoth while the Israeli Prime Minister would consider legislation unfavorable to rival newspaper Israel Hayom.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
26 June 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 sports community has rallied around Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte after a fan brought him to tears with derogatory comments about his late mother during the team’s 4-1 win over the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field on Tuesday.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
26 June 2025
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Diamondbacks All-Star second baseman Ketel Marte was seen in tears on the field after a spectator yelled a derogatory comment about his late mother during an at-bat in Arizona's game against the White Sox on Tuesday night in Chicago.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 June 2025
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Living the Values: Nothing is more disparaging for employees than having a leader who demonstrates behaviors that do not align with the organizational values, and no one seems to care.—
Tony Gambill,
Forbes.com,
24 June 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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Kavanaugh stressed that the Court needs to remain active in taking cases and issuing stays in order to avoid letting erroneous injunctions remain in place for years on end.—
The Editors,
National Review,
27 June 2025
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Facing mounting pressure and a Supreme Court order, the Trump administration returned him this month to face the smuggling charges, which Abrego Garcia’s attorneys characterized as an attempt to justify his erroneous deportation.—
Ben Finley,
Fortune,
27 June 2025
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The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, though Republican leaders dismissed the projection as inaccurate.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
4 July 2025
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And finding those homes proved challenging because many records were missing or inaccurate — some handwritten on notecards dating to the early 1900s.—
Michael Phillis,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2025
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Indeed, Richard Condrey, who as an ecologist at Louisiana State University in the 1980s led the panel that set national redfish policy, notes that the whole idea that land loss must trigger a collapse in fish stocks remains speculative—not untrue, necessarily, just difficult to prove.—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 June 2025
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Without them, we’re left with tripe, something unrelatable and unattainable, worst of all: untrue.—
Brendan O’Meara
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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And the government routinely prosecuted people for saying things, or for producing art, that regulators or law enforcement found objectionable.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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Costumes can’t be offensive, violent or objectionable (even if that sounds like a deadringer description of Deadpool).—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
11 June 2025
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unflattering. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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