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Recent Examples of unflattering
Vendor financing — along with the doubling, tripling or quadrupling of companies’ valuations — is one of the unflattering echoes some analysts see in comparing today’s AI frenzy with the late-90s dot-com bubble.
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
The post included an unflattering photo of the president from a campaign stop last October at McDonald’s.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
The former veep is making money selling her new book, but is also burning bridges with other Democrats for describing them in unflattering terms.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
When social media users called the wig unflattering, the insults dug deep.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
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Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
The post included an unflattering photo of the president from a campaign stop last October at McDonald’s.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
The former veep is making money selling her new book, but is also burning bridges with other Democrats for describing them in unflattering terms.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2025
When social media users called the wig unflattering, the insults dug deep.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unflattering
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Dougherty said the previous school board decided not to pursue a bond after unfavorable polling showed voters would not be in favor of a facilities bond in the 2024 election.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Oct. 2025
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The iPhone 17′s margin could also be squeezed by an unfavorable product mix and a higher bill of materials cost.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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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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However, the cases all took a turn less than a decade after Lambert's murder when Niroula appealed his conviction and sentencing by releasing recordings made between Garcia and their trial judge that showed the latter making derogatory comments, according to The Bay Area Reporter.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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It has also been used as a derogatory term, mocking immigrant culture in Lima during the mass migrations of Indigenous Andean people to Lima in the 20th century.—
NPR,
NPR,
10 Oct. 2025
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And there would be lots of soldiers around, either Army or National Guard, and the people who were civilians would be young people, very disparaging about the military.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 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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Engineers outfitted the device with a heater to melt ice in the winter, a customization that should improve accuracy during Arizona’s freeze-thaw cycles that have long created erroneous measurements.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Vedra and other debt law experts said a high rate of default judgments indicates a system that favors the pursuers over the pursued — and increases the chances someone will be harmed by an erroneous bill.—
Rae Ellen Bichell,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Big 12 did not clarify which part of Leipold's statement was inaccurate.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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But Johnson and other GOP leaders have repeatedly said Democrats want to extend Affordable Care Act and Medicaid benefits to countless undocumented immigrants, which is inaccurate.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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These claims are not only untrue — they are being weaponized to damage my reputation and distract from the truth.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez , Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The campaign slammed her words and accusations as inappropriate and untrue.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Oct. 2025
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Reading certain books felt like an objectionable act for Emily Zarka as a kid in 1990s Vermont.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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More recently, the Biden administration pressured social media companies to take down content the administration deemed objectionable, overriding the companies’ judgment and forcing them to comply.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Unflattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unflattering. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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