unflattering

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flattering

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?”, in 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.

Antonyms

• flattering

Translations

not flattering

• Czech: nelichotivý
• Danish: uflatterende
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uflatterende

Verb

unflattering

1. present participle and gerund of unflatter