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backhanded compliment
noun as in affront
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in aspersion
noun as in derision
noun as in indignity
Example Sentences
In his heyday, Richards had an eerily clinical and meticulous approach to drug use, a backhanded compliment to be sure.
For these women, “crazy” is a backhanded compliment, a path on the road to fame.
So what if much of his admiration toward Chang also seems like one big backhanded compliment.
It just hit me your previous question was sort of a backhanded compliment.
Whatever this might mean, it was, at best, a backhanded compliment to Hartigan.
It is no backhanded compliment to say that he has never improved upon the profusion or the quaintness of its humor.
A backhanded compliment of the acutest nature is credited to Lincoln as a lawyer and gentleman.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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