unflatter

English

Etymology

un- +‎ flatter

Verb

unflatter (third-person singular simple present unflatters, present participle unflattering, simple past and past participle unflattered)

  1. To show in a bad light; to portray unfavorably.
    • 1918, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, Where England Sets Her Feet: A Romance, page 229:
      Well, sith thy truth unflatters me, I will believe it truth.
    • 2008, Christopher N. Okonkwo, A Spirit of Dialogue:
      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).
    • 2018, Marlene K. Sokolon, ‎Travis D. Smith, Flattering the Demos: Fiction and Democratic Education, →ISBN, page 137:
      Mainstream media “unflatters” the demos and its rulers daily.
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