Ant. Creditable, honorable, noble, meritorious, justifiable, distinguished, extenuated, excusable, pardonable.

Flaring. Flaming, glaring, conspicuous, bright, gaudy, overcolored, flaunting, flashy, ostentatious, showy, tawdry.

Ant. Subdued, toned, harmonized, dull, dim, dingy, neutral, dowdy, colorless.

Flat, a. Level, horizontal; even, plane, smooth; low, prostrate, laid low; dull, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, frigid, tame, prosaic, uninteresting; pointless; vapid, tasteless, insipid, stale, dead, jejune; peremptory, absolute, positive; downright, mawkish.

Ant. Animated, exciting, interesting, thrilling, sensational, emotional, melodramatic.

Flaunt. Wave ostentatiously, insolently, brazenly, or boldly; display, vaunt, flourish, toss, disport, boast; flout, flounce, flutter, parade, figure.

Ant. Conceal, suppress, retire, skulk, recede, hide, shrivel, collapse, furl.

Flavor. Taste, savor, relish, zest, smack, gusto; aroma, essence, subtle quality, spirit, soul; odor.

Ant. Insipidity, tastelessness, inodorousness, mawkishness, scentlessness, flatness.

Flexible. Pliable, pliant, limber, lithe, supple, crooked; affable, tractable, compliant, docile, gentle; elastic; easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding.