compliment
Example Sentences
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His positional awareness has also earned praise although his work-rate and desire to cover as much ground as possible mean he often tires himself out - a potential backhanded compliment.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
It’s the singer’s most sonically cohesive set, but this time that’s not necessarily a compliment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
He was a keen student of dialect; doing movies in the South, he meandered down backroads, learning just the right way to frame a question in rural Mississippi or deliver a compliment in west Texas.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
We thought we owed him the opportunity after our criticism of his tariffs, and we’ll pay him the additional compliment of parsing his claims.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
In fact, there was one guy who called out a compliment a couple of times.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
