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unˈflattered, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1634Habington Castara i. (Arb.) 47 Time mocks our youth; and..brings us to unflattered age. Ibid. ii. 76 Retir'd like Princes from the noise of men, To breath a while unflatter'd. 1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 631 In vaults, thin courts of poor unflatter'd kings. 1789T. Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry 352 The unsoftened and unflattered character of Achilles. 1845Darwin in F. Darwin Life (1887) I. 333 At which I ought to be much flattered and unflattered. |