flattering
Example Sentences
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“You can talk about yourself in a way that’s flattering, while paying service to those who worked for you or with you,” she said.
From MarketWatch
Lululemon got its start as an innovator in athletic apparel, designing leggings that were so flattering and comfortable that women wore them to the gym and just about everywhere else.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
