flattering
Example Sentences
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The movie is flattering, but it’s also genuinely revealing, and it’s clearly reaching an audience that never expected to be so enthralled by research about protein structures.
Yet the study has received flattering publicity from journalists eager to believe.
The 73-year-old retired clown started in fourth grade, with a poem about his teacher; it wasn’t flattering, but he got a kick out of saying what he thought.
As confident as I am about my process and my artistic view, it’s very flattering.
From Los Angeles Times
The figure doesn’t paint an especially flattering picture of the current job market.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
