0 not flattering, or making someone look less attractive or seem worse than usual: --
It is true that sodium and mercury vapour lamps suffer from the defect of presenting road users literally in an unflattering light.
I am happy to say that so far that unflattering maxim has remained true in my own case.
Only because 1 should not want to see that unflattering description of bodgers go unchallenged.
I exclude from the category of pretty pictures his own rather unflattering portrait, for which we claim absolutely no responsibility.
These anniversaries shed a very unflattering light on those who, in former times, kept quiet about oppression or did business with those who inflicted it.
It has had unflattering epithets heaped upon it many times during the course of this debate.
Insofar as a resistant response is noticed by audience members, they will seek to account for the breach of conduct via inferences that are apt to be unflattering or incriminating.
Nicknames were by no means always unflattering.
