Examples of 'backhanded compliment' in a sentence
Meaning of "backhanded compliment"
backhanded compliment: A compliment that also contains a subtle insult or condescension
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- An insult disguised as a compliment; a compliment which can be interpreted as an insult.
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And backhanded compliment me all day long.
I am willing to take that slightly backhanded compliment.
I will take the backhanded compliment coming from you.
That negates the whole reason for a backhanded compliment.
A backhanded compliment is a compliment that actually has an insult in it as well.
Thanks for the backhanded compliment.
The backhanded compliment to lower her self-esteem.
Always with the backhanded compliment.
A backhanded compliment is usually a well-intended compliment that unintentionally had an insult buried in it.
I will accept your backhanded compliment.
This supremely backhanded compliment first and foremost suggests that all black women are ugly.
Anything could be read as a backhanded compliment.
What a backhanded compliment.
That right there is why you remain the queen of the backhanded compliment.
You used my backhanded compliment.
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What Cameron has to say comes across as a backhanded compliment.
Another backhanded compliment.
There is nothing I like more than a backhanded compliment.
A kind of backhanded compliment.
The group later said in interviews that it felt like a backhanded compliment to hip-hop.
Well, I will take that as a backhanded compliment that I look too young to be a mother.
To lower her self-esteem… a proven winner. The backhanded compliment.
What kind of a backhanded compliment is that?
Why can't you just, you know, Always with the backhanded compliment.
Wow, that was a bit of a backhanded compliment with your statement!
The backhanded compliment to lower her self-esteem… a proven winner. But Barney hasn't done.
I will take the backhanded compliment.
If I am not mistaken, Tommy, that was a backhanded compliment.
I will take the backhanded compliment coming from you . Well, thank you.
I don't know if it was a backhanded compliment.
That was such a backhanded compliment.
Do you also realize what a mostly offensive backhanded compliment that is?
Everything my mom says is either a backhanded compliment or a front-handed insult.
I told him to . Always with the backhanded compliment.
Yeah, toss her a backhanded compliment.
Thank you . I will accept your backhanded compliment.
All About My Mother is almost a backhanded compliment to women.
That is a good point . Backhanded compliment.
Toss her … Yeah, toss her a backhanded compliment.
Okay, so don't forget: Everything my mom says is either a backhanded compliment or a front-handed insult.
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And backhanded compliment me all day long
After the deputy backhanded his kid
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Examples of using Compliment
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I really must compliment whoever lives here
Compliment took a bit of a left turn there
Let me pay you the compliment of being blunt
