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third-person singular simple present unflatters, present participle unflattering, simple past and past participle unflattered
(transitive) To show or display in a bad light; to portray unfavorably. quotations examples
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
Mainstream media “unflatters” the demos and its rulers daily.
2018, Marlene K. Sokolon, Travis D. Smith, Flattering the Demos: Fiction and Democratic Education, page 137