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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
Overturning Roe was one of the few campaign promises Trumpov kept during his administration, Buttigieg said — the ultimate backhanded compliment.
We all know what their backhanded compliment is coded to mean!
"I've been told that 'I'm one of the good ones' from the Lebanese community - a backhanded compliment that suggests that the rest of my community isn't good."
When Karl balks, she delivers a wicked backhanded compliment, saying: “You’re a corporate legend. What you did in the ’90s, with cable?
He viewed the comment as a backhanded compliment, and remembered thinking, “I wouldn’t even know how to write songs for a musical.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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