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Recent Examples of unflattering
The key to the ethicality of reporting on personal or unflattering information is if the information is deemed essential or necessary for the public to make informed decisions as consumers or citizens.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott immediately characterized an unflattering AI image of him as being racist.
—Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2026
In smaller rooms, harsh or overly bright lighting can feel clinical, emphasizing tight corners and casting unflattering shadows.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
Murray’s shooting splits, dragged down by his 4-for-17 Game 6, were just as unflattering.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott immediately characterized an unflattering AI image of him as being racist.
—Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2026
In smaller rooms, harsh or overly bright lighting can feel clinical, emphasizing tight corners and casting unflattering shadows.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
Murray’s shooting splits, dragged down by his 4-for-17 Game 6, were just as unflattering.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unflattering
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The agreement was immediately challenged in Kenya’s High Court, with opponents criticizing it for unfavorable terms.—
Larry Madowo,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
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Wasserman Schultz’s overall rating among Democratic voters in the district, with 80% favorable and 13% unfavorable, is a net positive of 67 percentage points.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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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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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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On West, now known as Ye, Jay-Z’s bars appeared to home in on Ye previously making derogatory comments about Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s children.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
31 May 2026
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The video from a nearby camera phone showed Crow-Armstrong using a vulgar phrase that involved one of his body parts and calling the woman a derogatory name.—
Jon Greenberg,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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Felix points to Trump’s disparaging and false comments against Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, which put a target on the back of many Haitian immigrants.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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While Trump’s talk of a possible NATO pullout dates back years, the comments to The Telegraph newspaper in the U.K., published Wednesday, were among the clearest and most disparaging yet — suggesting that the fracture has deepened perhaps to a point of no return.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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That assumption is erroneous—and dangerous.—
David Capablanca,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Technology should be developed to track the same digital paths that erroneous content traveled, correcting the record along the way.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 May 2026
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In addition, the news organization insists its statements are true in the sense that, even if some details are inaccurate, the gist or overall summation of the reporting was right.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
2 June 2026
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Doing so could result in inaccurate, misleading or incomplete outputs.—
Shekhar Iyer,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The caller told them a family member had been detained, which was untrue, and demanded money for legal expenses.—
Kassia Bonesteel,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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The first is that the task of governance, always hard, gets harder when true and untrue information is fired from every cellphone tower and when the public has no political memory to speak of.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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The show hinges on finding an ordinary person who, plunged into a group of people he’s never met before, doesn’t reject them as weird or objectionable but embraces them at some basic human level.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
1 June 2026
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Europe’s newfound openness to African industrialization is not because dependency suddenly became morally objectionable, but because Europe increasingly fears dependency itself.—
W. Gyude Moore,
semafor.com,
25 May 2026
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unflattering. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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