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Meanings of uncomplimentary in English
Spanish
nada halagador Tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage.
Synonyms
Examples for "unflattering"
Examples for "unflattering"
1
The latest data to confirm our unflattering position comes from Ookla Speedtest.
2
Word association paints a similarly unflattering picture: tin box, dinky and rust.
3
Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God's great, unflattering laureate, Nature.
4
She is just making the point that you're using an unflattering name.
5
Consequently, no even remotely unflattering story about Streisand had appeared for years.
Usage of uncomplimentary in English
1
My answers-andI was very particular-raisedquite a storm of uncomplimentary remarks.
2
It sounds uncomplimentary, and I'm sick of being compared with polar places.
3
I am sure I detected an uncomplimentary arrière pensée in your speech!
4
You said nothing very uncomplimentary; in fact, I was quite flattered.
5
I take back every uncomplimentary remark I ever made about him.
6
Your newspaper printed my picture the other day, with some rather uncomplimentary remarks.
7
Dick stuffed his bast in his pocket, and muttered things uncomplimentary to Banstead.
8
There were many uncomplimentary references, on the walls, to a certain unpopular dignitary.
9
He could not understand them, but gathered that they were uncomplimentary.
10
Mrs. Kyley shouted an uncomplimentary summary of Quigley's character from behind the counter.
11
Presently he remembered that his moodiness, his silence, were uncomplimentary, cruel, to Violet.
12
I could not stay at the Farm, she added in her usual uncomplimentary style.
13
A certain modicum of truth may rest in this startling and seemingly uncomplimentary definition.
14
These and many other equally uncomplimentary remarks about the usurer were freely bandied about.
15
They had been hurling distinctly uncomplimentary and obscene epithets concerning Britain through the room.
16
I was very sorry for her, and thought many uncomplimentary things of the duke.
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Uncomplimentary through the time
Uncomplimentary across language varieties
United Kingdom
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