Sentence examples for not very complimentary from inspiring English sources

"He's not very complimentary", I'm told.

The talk was not very complimentary.

Mostly it's not very complimentary," he laughs.

"Ha! That's not very complimentary to your host, dear.

We do do know this tune - but it's not very complimentary.

Having little money, he moved to Guatemala, where he shared a house with Anaïs Nin, who wrote a good deal about him (some of it not very complimentary) in her diaries.

"We have a long history of Africa being seen in ways that are not very complimentary, and in America [where she has been studying for the past 10 years] being seen as an African writer comes with baggage that we don't necessarily care for.

Although this account of U.P.I.'s recent years is certainly not very complimentary, the story casts a golden haze over most of its history and some of the great names associated with the news service over the years: William Shirer, Eric Sevareid, Harrison Salisbury, Howard K. Smith, Westbrook Pegler and the redoubtable Helen Thomas, the current senior wire-service correspondent at the White House.

here's Boycott giving his considered - and not very complimentary - opinion about England's spin bowling.

"It wasn't very complimentary," Mr. Long said.

"The facts aren't very complimentary in terms of our performances in Croke Park.