Sentence examples for Backhanded compliment from inspiring English sources

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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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