Sentence examples for mistaken compliment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Smitherman said that during his 2012 election campaign, at least one person offered him a mistaken compliment, saying, "I've ridden your railroads and your people were superpolite".

In her confused state, she mistook a compliment for harassment, mistook you pressing against her as an innocent brush, mistook a statement about how her job would be lost if she didn't give in to your sexual demands as being taken out of context.

O'Brien is eighty-five years old, and praising this novel for its ambition, its daring vitality, its curiosity about the present age and about the lives of those displaced by its turbulence shouldn't be mistaken for the backhanded compliment that all this is remarkable given the author's advanced age.

No word yet if Harry is taking the case of mistaken identity as a compliment.

While it is a compliment to be mistaken for a nurse (they are truly amazing and do things I never could do), the men I work with are never thought to be nurses.

Many people with low self-esteem have difficulty taking compliments; they assume that the person complimenting them is either mistaken or lying.

It is mildly funny to watch as an egotistical young student playwright (Tate Ellington) and subsequently an insufferably self-satisfied novelist (Jonathan Cake) fly into seething rages when faced with Philip's blandly sincere compliments, mistaking them for jabs from a silk-wrapped rapier.

I decided to take this as a compliment: that we'd made something professional enough to be mistaken for a chain.

Complimented on his modesty, he said simply, "I am modest," but that reticence should not be mistaken for lack of assertiveness.

I very nearly made the mistake of complimenting her, but I coughed the words back down.

They certainly wouldn't have wanted to make the mistake of complimenting the newspaper, as Tucker Carlson once famously did, to some amount of regret.