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Webster 1828 Edition


Unflattering

UNFLAT'TERING

, a.
1.
Not flattering; not gratifying with obsequious behavior; not coloring the truth to please.
2.
Not affording a favorable prospect; as, the weather is unflattering.

Definition 2024


unflattering

unflattering

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Adjective

unflattering (comparative more unflattering, superlative most unflattering)

  1. Not flattering.
    • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):
      Daniel Halper, online editor at the conservative Weekly Standard and the author of Clinton, Inc., an unflattering portrait of the Clintons, theorizes Huma had little choice after the second sexting fiasco but to stick with Hillary.

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