I replied that I preferred it, which I afterwards thought was a very uncomplimentary observation to make.
We have the key to this sort of thing in the strange, uncomplimentary reference to Catherine Hayes, the murderess, but which was at once applied to an interesting and celebrated Irish singer of the same name.
The perfumer could only have been half pleased with this uncomplimentary form.
So it came about that Mr. Grice was unpopular, and the boys in his class bemoaned their fate, and called him uncomplimentary nicknames.
It soon became evident that the matter was not to be allowed to drop without some show of feeling, for on the following morning the unfortunate official was greeted with jeers and uncomplimentary remarks wherever he went.
You were apprenticed to a German, who fed you and your fellows at a common table, thrashed you with a strap, kept you indoors whenever you had made a mistake, and spoke of you in uncomplimentary terms to his wife and friends.
Ten versts away there lived the general whom we have heard expressing himself in highly uncomplimentary terms concerning Tientietnikov.
Those who assert that the Bedouins are heartless and cruel, should take note of the above fact, and make an ample apology if they have hitherto said anything uncomplimentary about these plundering blackguards.
It is somewhat uncomplimentary to the natives of this country, that they are more inclined to trust strangers than each other.
Ignoring the uncomplimentary remarks of O'Flarety, he again bent over Zoie.
In spite of himself he was always miffed by the uncomplimentary way in which she disposed of him.
Butte old-timers of this section tell a story of a cowhand named Bob Pierce who because of his merciless riding was known to his fellow workers as "Crazy Loon" as well as by numerous other uncomplimentary titles.
The next time I went to see Aunt Agnes I received an explanation of this conduct, though my name had appeared once or twice before during the past few years in uncomplimentary paragraphs.
Without undue confidence, I can say that I achieved a triumph, and put to rout the various uncomplimentary conjectures that the world had hazarded in regard to me.
A cloud gathered on Madame de St. André's brow at this honest and somewhat uncomplimentary reply, but suddenly the humor of the situation seemed to strike her and she burst out laughing.
I am sure I detected an uncomplimentary arrière pensée in your speech!
Dawn finds it handy to put her lovers on to me," said Carry, who was washing away the spilt tea and airing some uncomplimentary opinions of Andrew and Uncle Jake between whiles.
Many curious eyes were turned to Riddell to see the effect of this uncomplimentary oration upon him.
In the midst of these uncomplimentary shouts the boat slowly wended its erratic course up the river, amidst crowds of boys on either bank.
I am sure Mr Trafford did not mean to beuncomplimentary in any way;' with a little defiant toss of the head and glance towards him.
The Seventh experienced some trouble in getting into line, and many camp rumors were afloat a few days afterwards of an uncomplimentary nature of the Seventh's action.
The old General, in several places in his memoirs, makes uncomplimentary remarks and insinuations against some of his old compatriots in arms, but these should not be taken seriously.
They were uncomplimentary to all veterinary inspectors in general, and most pointedlyuncomplimentary to one in particular.
We pressed in all the available knowledge of Latin about camp, and found that the tenor of the verses was very uncomplimentary to that charming sex which does us the honor of being our mothers and sweethearts.
They greeted this threat with a chorus profanely uncomplimentary to the purity of the guard's ancestry; they did not imply his descent a la Darwin, from the remote monkey, but more immediate generation by a common domestic animal.
I suppose you think me uncomplimentary in such a suggestion.
I wish you had not written in so uncomplimentary a strain about Rosebery.
But many uncomplimentary names are no longer objected to because their owners do not know their earlier meanings.
Bragg was once used for bold or brave, without anyuncomplimentary suggestion.
The form in the roll may, however, represent anuncomplimentary nickname, "guile.
The scenes and incidents throughout the drama are all in the same style, and the whole is dedicated in an uncomplimentary epistle to the Pope.
This uncomplimentary remark caused us all to laugh heartily.
It is well that the horses were not able to understand the uncomplimentary speeches that were addressed to them.
One Sunday afternoon I had been speaking of the necessity of purifying the commercial life of Canada on our return, and I said something uncomplimentary about land speculators.
I'm busy: get out," was the uncomplimentary reply.
He would be if he had the strength, which he hasn't," exclaimed the widow with uncomplimentary fervor.
In the German colonies I have often overheard complaints about Russian tyranny and uncomplimentary remarks about the Russian national character.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncomplimentary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
