flattered
adjective
feeling gratified or honored by unexpected favorable attention, as an invitation or compliment.
unflattered
-
a word derived from
flattered.
Example Sentences
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So there was no detail of hospitality too small for the French hosts this time, no country negotiator who would go unflattered by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister who presided over the conference.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2015
Bobs Worth was sound, if unflattered, by standing next to the much more imposing Sprinter Sacre, devastating winner of Wednesday's Champion Chase.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
Shall probably find very unflattered likenesses of ourselves in Recording Angel's gallery.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
Something in the way she repeated her "Goodbye!" betrayed her impression of this, and not a little withal that so much confidence left her unflattered.
From The Reverberator by Henry James
But, though unflattered and unsung, those early deeds in France and Flanders can boast an epitaph which tells no lies, and which, in its simple tragedy, is more eloquent than a volume of strained panegyrics.
From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton
