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

But away off from the cities there still lives a race of unflattered fairies who are not snobbish, and who love little girls and boys in pinafores and ragged jackets.

From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Eggleston, Edward

"Still, the blushing would seem to indicate that the complexion was genuine," retorted Jennie, apparently quite unflattered by Mr. Taylor's agreement with the theory she herself had put forward.

From Jennie Baxter, Journalist by Barr, Robert

This did well enough as an unflattered portrait.

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen