Antonyms for flatteringflat·ter·ing

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1. flatteringnoun

   Antonyms:
   unflattering, unbecoming

   Synonyms:
   soft sawder, flattery, becoming

2. flatteringnoun

   Attractive or good-looking; that makes one look good.

   The dress really did not look very flattering on her figure.

   Antonyms:
   unflattering, unbecoming

   Synonyms:
   soft sawder, flattery, becoming

3. flatteringnoun

   Instances of flattery.

   Synonyms:
   soft sawder, flattery

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1. flatteringadjective

   showing or representing to advantage

   "a flattering color"

   Antonyms:
   unflattering, uncomplimentary

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1. flatteringadjective

   Synonyms:
   wheedling, adulatory, alluring, blandiloquent, sycophantic, obsequious

How to use flattering in a sentence?

1. Proverb:

   A hypocrite's hatred is hidden behind flattering words. #qotd #quoteoftheday

2. Joe Diffie:

   I was like,' Joe Diffie got ta be kidding me.' It's pretty flattering they went that far with it. It's one thing to hear a song title or Joe Diffie name mentioned, but when it started into the' Joe, Joe, Joe Diffie' part, that's cool right there.

3. Marshall Ramsey:

   Not every cartoon I drew about Barbara Bush was flattering, but the last one is.

4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.

5. Oscar Wilde:

   Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword

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