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compliment

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“With ‘Limos’ we had very few lights in the room, and we kept getting compliments on it,” Evaristo says.

And last year, Swift showered Charli with compliments in an interview with New York Magazine.

From BBC

They may also chip away at your mood slowly, through backhanded compliments or pressuring you to be upbeat, where they don't allow you to express how you are really feeling.

From BBC

Anointing someone the GOAT, as in “Greatest of All Time,” has been around longer, but the silly thing about both compliments is they’re getting handed out like Halloween candy.

I tell my scene partner, “You never gave me a single compliment!”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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