Sentence examples for be an unflattering reference from inspiring English sources

Have fun with your [understood to be an unflattering reference to Carina Trimingham, Huhne's partner]." CH: "I do hope your exams are going okay, despite everything over the last few weeks.

In one, there is an unflattering mention of a college friendship.

Gleevec is the great exception; most new chemotherapies could be considered to be "neocytotoxics" [3], an unflattering reference to their tendency to show unacceptable toxicity at therapeutic doses (i.e. they have a marginal therapeutic index).

He worried that his legacy would be an unflattering article spotlighting his foolishness, yet he went ahead for two reasons.

Bobby Simpson, a 53-year-old construction worker at the Rangers' game, said that even before the new law, an acquaintance had been jailed overnight for inserting an unflattering reference to the pope in a traditional Rangers song.

Entwistle says he does not remember the "Great Panjandrum" – an unflattering reference to an experimental world war two rocket-propelled cart – saying to him "if you don't go, I'm going to?", with reference to the first of Entwistle's two appearances on Today on 8 October.

In Seattle, homeless residents in the city's 100-person encampment call it Nickelsville, an unflattering reference to the mayor, Greg Nickels.

Thus, annalist in this last sense is an unflattering term.

"Daily News Blues" is an unflattering portrait of the manipulative way he believes tabloids operate.

Their inability to handle prosperity is an unflattering habit, a product of their seesawing rookie quarterback and an inexperienced roster.

Most likely this is an unflattering book about retirees at an accounting firm.