no compliment
Example Sentences
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This is no compliment, even if you like to think that you’re one of a kind.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2017
Sesno called it “breathtaking” — and that was no compliment.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2016
That is no compliment in a town where ageing puts you out of work.
From Economist • Feb. 21, 2013
It might have been a superficial sobriquet and said in jest but many a true word is and it was no compliment.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2010
“To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
