unflatter
unflatter verb: to show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
Verb
unflatter (third-person singular simple present unflatters, present participle unflattering, simple past and past participle unflattered)
- To show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
- Well, sith thy truth unflatters me, I will believe it truth.1918, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Where England Sets Her Feet: A Romance, page 229
- He switched promptly from the escapist fantasy of young-white-male-orientated comic books to the cauterizing realism of Richard Wright, whose fiction unflatters the United States, condemning it as dehumanizing and coercively deathly for blacks (JanMohamed 2005).2008, Christopher N. Okonkwo, A Spirit of Dialogue
- Synonyms:
- besmirch, denigrate, diss, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmear
- Antonyms:
- flatter, brush up to, collogue, flatterize, glaver, gloze, jolly, lay it on thick, make fair weather, palaver
Synonyms of unflatter
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Antonyms
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Forms of unflatter
| third-person singular present | unflatters |
|---|---|
| present participle | unflattering |
| past participle | unflattered |
| past | unflattered |
Origin of unflatter
From un- + flatter.
Questions about unflatter
- What does unflatter mean?
- Unflatter means to show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
- What part of speech is unflatter?
- Unflatter is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unflatter?
- The past tense of unflatter is unflattered.
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