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

And yet unflattered by the store Of these supremer revelations, Who bowed more reverently before The lowliest of earth's fair creations?

From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell

For answer Berenice's deep, almost black-blue eyes turned on her admirer with solemn unflattered consideration.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

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 Hamilton, Ernest W.