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Backhanded compliment
noun
An insult disguised as a compliment; a compliment which can be interpreted as an insult.
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You were born with a subject.' Well, isn't everyone?" It's a familiar, backhanded compliment.
Give them a backhanded compliment.
It's a backhanded compliment.
This was a backhanded compliment.
A backhanded compliment, but still: a backhanded compliment!
And that's no backhanded compliment.
It was a backhanded compliment, for sure.
Take it as a backhanded compliment.
You know how people give a backhanded compliment?
Did you take that as a backhanded compliment?
I didn't think it was a backhanded compliment.
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