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• a  showing or representing unfavorably
  an uncomplimentary dress
• a  tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage

• Discussing coverage of the convention disorders, the Review noted approvingly that editors "nervously let their reporters set down uncomplimentary facts about the police and the .
• Is CBS going to allow David Gergen unlimited airtime to formally attack someone who writes a book uncomplimentary to George HW Bush, his former employer?.
• They were there to record what Burkle--who had chafed at uncomplimentary and, he thought, untrue items about him in the column--believed was a $220,000 shakedown for kid-glove .

• unflattering

• flattering
• complimentary

News & Articles

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• Every once in a while, John McCain makes sense
  Most of my many mentions of John McCain here over the past five years have been uncomplimentary, to put it mildly. But there are occasions when the old coot merits praise for actually living up to [...]
  June 29, 2013 - The Daily Siftings Herald

Quotes

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• Lou Dobbs in Financial Times
  When we fixed up the lunch on the phone, Dobbs said: "The Financial Times has printed many uncomplimentary things about me."