He had taken to calling the stranger unflattering names, out of jealousy, Robyn suspected, for now she no longer attended entirely to the little dragon.

He died in 634 and was initially given the unflattering posthumous name of Miao (繆, "inconsistent").

In The Lord of the Rings, Tom Bombadil gives his horse a rather unflattering name.

Did the breakup involve calling each other unflattering names and hurling small, breakable objects, or was it sad, yet reasonable, a mutual decision.

Ms. Radice was denounced as "a decency czar" and called other unflattering names by artists' groups and commentators.

He never called his meddling by that unflattering name.

Would signs appear calling them unflattering names?

I swore, wiped slime from face and neck, called him a dozen unflattering names.

Emperor Yuanzong gave him the unflattering posthumous name of Chouliao (醜繆, "power-abusing and overvalued").

She is just making the point that you're using an unflattering name.