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Sentence Examples It's usually a backhanded compliment to say that the lighting is great, but in this case, it's the simple truth. She looked slightly mollified by the compliment, but I could tell that it would be a long evening before my task was accomplished. If that sounds like a backhanded compliment, it is intended as a compliment nonetheless. Jude nodded and smiled confidently, even if he was slightly confused by Stephen's backhanded compliment. Something about Gran's tone suggested that this was only a backhanded compliment. The backhanded compliment had made her blood rise with both embarrassment and a little bit of annoyance. Rather than thanking him for the compliment, I only nod, waiting for the other shoe to drop. It would be an enormous compliment to Barry if the government now went to all the trouble of choosing a different date just to spite him. Has anybody here gotten a post-show compliment that was meant sincerely but felt like a backhanded compliment? I mean, neither of us is in the prime of youth anymore and this was a bit of a backhanded compliment. I don't really think he meant it as a backhanded compliment, but it was funny, all the same. It was the first time she ever gave me a real compliment, and I was surprised how easy it came to her lips. Well, being very bad at accepting any kind of compliment, I will just shuffle my feet a bit here. All I did was introduce myself, and she paid me what seemed at first like a baffling compliment. Alex, motivated by this rare compliment from Lance, set back to work on the mechanics of the machine. I don't think it's nearly good enough to get published though, but thanks for such a compliment. Collina's famously piercing gaze uncharacteristically drops away, almost bashful at being reminded of the compliment. Nevertheless, I must compliment you on the thoughtful and informed analysis present in your reports. I consider it a great compliment to me and mine that you would consider our family worthy to be joined. It is reputed in Japanese culture that noisy eating is a compliment to the cook. Show More Sentences Until now the only trees he has seen are wattles and eucalypts, which don't merit a compliment. The one-time New Glasgow Boy still looks boyish, and I compliment him on this. I want to think of something to insult you at the moment, but nothing comes to mind that's nasty enough not to compliment you. You've got to downplay the compliment but you can't reject it because that seems ungracious. Lead guitar and vocalist Andrew Kenny, has a relaxed and often whispery quality on the mic that is a perfect compliment to AMS's sound. Even philosophical critics of rationalism pay reason the back-handed compliment of arguing against its pretensions. The horsemen looking on with the keen anticipation of those about to be mightily entertained paid me the compliment of rapidly becoming bored. With characteristic quarrelsomeness Janet responded rebukingly to an elaborate compliment. She did suggest a visit to the optician for the person offering the so-called compliment! They come hard on the heels of a compliment from a spectator or another player. This was probably the only compliment she has heard in a long time since she was so convinced of her unfemininity. Crafted from the highest-quality spring steel I had, these shoes will compliment any office cube or trophy case. Buried inside the compliment is the rejoinder that this wasn't always the case in the past. He delivers a Ride Of The Valkyries in which he supplants bombast with an intelligent compliment to the story as it appears on stage. However, responding to praise often perplexes students because they don't see a need to reply to a compliment with which they are in agreement. An older, gorgeous married man wanting to sleep with you can seem like a fabulous compliment and ego boost. Just be sure to talk at least once in class, compliment him on his tie once a week, and Bob's your uncle! It may seem a left-handed compliment to say The Industry Standard was by far the best and most professional of this lot, but I mean it sincerely. Considering the gory mess various forms of leftism made of the 20th century, this is really a back-handed compliment! Pipes, though a little disconcerted, far from being disabled by the blow, in a trice retorted the compliment with his truncheon. Show More Sentences I compliment the wife on her mink vest, although I think privately she looks a lot like Genghis Khan. I knew it was a compliment about something that was buttery rich, deliciously opulent and lip-smacking cool. It was out of sheer fear he wouldn't be able to stop himself from spewing out something nasty, thinly veiled as a compliment. Above all else, compliment each person for approaching you with the request to work. While eating well is a term used to compliment big eaters, eating properly entails replenishing energy resources. Even before they joined up, Frances was designing exclusive millinery to compliment the exquisite footwear. Instead, compliment them on other things, perhaps on their non-physical qualities. When he takes the mound, the team behind him knows they have a chance, and that's probably the biggest compliment you can give somebody. While not overly powerful, the woofer provides deep, rumbling bass tones that compliment the rich sounds produced by the speakers. Noah took a hard hilarious time getting his gin-swilling Belfast millie of a wife on board with their compliment of furry animals. Are you a shameless attention-seeker who can only get ego-gratification by having many people compliment you? Im not quite sure who they are but I take it as a compliment that they liked my site enough to copy parts of it. After presenting my first talk at the Psychological Association, I got a motivationally inspiring compliment from an audience member. In insect macrophotography, close-up filters and macro lens are some of the most essential items to compliment any digital cameras. The older guys used to say, as a compliment, that Frankie was so good, if a fly messed on the music score he could read and play that too. He is the perfect compliment to him, and together they form one of the most prolific tandems in recent National Hockey League history. Coming from a lefty with tinfoil hat tendencies, I'm happy to take it as a compliment and move on. Reviewers and critics paid Swinburne the compliment of identifying him with Sappho and praising his talent as Sapphic. He paid a big compliment to the suppliers and worker here, since this is the most technically advanced car ever built in Thailand. What I just said could be considered a left-handed compliment. Show More Sentences In his heyday, Richards had an eerily clinical and meticulous approach to drug use, a backhanded compliment to be sure. African Americans in blackface were considered more authentic and they did not take the compliment lightly. For many men, being depicted by Channing Tatum in a film about your life would be a compliment. You might not think that's much of a compliment, but the movie is a good, solid actioner, and I wouldn't fight my nephew if he decided he just had to see it next week. And the criticism is always poorly packaged as concern or some sad excuse for a compliment. To be the very first moment that we see on an episode of The Good Wife was quite a compliment and very humbling. One can hardly pay literature a greater compliment than to deem it dangerous, be it said even in passing. Our Ministry and some other Ministries are rendering excellent services that cannot be compared to private sector standards and for which we do not get any compliment. There is nothing Mosley takes for granted about Wright, giving what might be a left-handed compliment in saying Winky sometimes fights to the level of his competition. I suppose in the end, Pattaya did get a left-handed compliment. Let me return the compliment by noting that I consider Mooney a thoughtful and fair-minded critic of conservatism. Michael Cullen decided to break the logjam, and I compliment him on that. I may not compliment you on your sexy NASCAR get-up, but I will defend with my last Snickers your right to wear one. I can tell it's his way of being nice so I take it as a compliment. It was not an insult per se, but definitely a backhanded compliment. It was a backhanded compliment and not a very good one at that. I guess this is kind of a backhanded compliment on the performances, but the reality is that the stage performance didn't help at all with the film. Thank you for the backhanded compliment in admitting I'm intelligent. For example, after an abusive incident, the batterer may give the victim gifts, treat the victim kindly, show more affection, and even compliment the victim. They sound like the kind of things a top-drawer handbell choir might make up before rehearsal starts in earnest, which shouldn't be a compliment but somehow is. Show More Sentences He accepted the compliment, but I realized that he had misheard me. It managed to compliment her pale skin and golden blond hair. Why is it okay for straight women to compliment the looks of another woman and then, on the other hand, when men do the same, social uncomfortableness arises. In a way I look at the fact it was bootlegged as a compliment. Doug will compliment our Company's recently executed marketing relationship with Typecase Multimedia, Inc. The NHS can also commission the expertise of organisations in the voluntary sector to compliment palliative care. And how nine-time senior champion Jim Thorpe walked down a driving range in Hawaii to introduce himself and compliment Johnson on his play. Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation. A compliment, forehanded, she thought. They were so rare in life and even less often believed. Well, this woman, she could not compliment me enough on the turkey galantine. I HAVE to compliment the security staff at the Cheb Khaled gig, on Saturday night, at the Philharmonic Hall. But sadly comparing him as a soundalike to Robyn Lewis was not meant as a compliment. He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. This treasure flowers with the euphorbia and they compliment each other beautifully, both in colour and shape. An additional site map generator has been added to compliment the existing site map creator. The backhandedness of the compliment suddenly struck him, and he squeezed his eyes shut at the gaffe. It is said to marry with food very well, particularly pizza to compliment the rich yeastiness and, rather dangerously, it is very moreish. Famous fans and contributors include Rod Stewart, Bryan Ferry and Tom Jones, who, true to form, shoehorns in a compliment that Redding paid him. Only Boris Johnson broke brown-nosing ranks to pay a backhanded compliment to Vegas fun-lover Prince Harry and poor put-upon Kate. Perhaps, finally, the Netherlands will shed itself of the backhanded compliment of being the best team never to win a world championship. Show More Sentences He paid them the ultimate compliment by revealing how he had always wanted to be a Gurkha himself. More Loire Valley cruise than a take-away from the local chippy, a crisp sauvignon blanc from Sancerre has the freshness to compliment flaky fish with tartare sauce. On this occasion I cooked him a bouillabaisse and he gave me the ultimate compliment that my bouillabaisse was better than the bouillabaisse of Tetou. And in the ultimate compliment, since day one back in 1994, Mambo is where you'll find the island's DJs, promoters, musicians and faces hanging out when they're not working. But new PICK THE DAY experiments are providing fresh evidence all the time, with more chances for them to prove that the word birdbrain should really be a compliment. Westinghouse employees were looking for a credit union which already offered a full compliment of banking services, everything from Gold Visa cards to mortgages. Today they operate a full compliment of slitting, cut-to-length, and deburred edge equipment capable of narrow coils up to quarter inch thickness. This retail will be located on Water Street and will compliment the existing retail corridor that includes the Water Street Bar and Grill, Jacques Torres and Almondine. The sold out event was on held at the Ghillie Dhu, a 200 capacity Scottish themed venue which proved to be a perfect compliment to the kilts sported by some of our guests. It was probably intended to compliment one of Verrazzano's noble friends. Columbus smiled at the compliment and snapped inconsequently at a fly. Axl took this as a back-handed compliment and was momentarily placated. The lovable dope admitted stealing glimpses of her as she rounded the table shooting. He went on to compliment that her hair was lustrous. The cherriest lips he had ever seen. Examples from Classical Literature We shall at least use the compliment of Conan, who never got a stroke but he gave one. Indeed, there was something in the very crudity of his social compliment that smacked, strangely enough, of that egalitarian soil. Remember, though, it is the height of impoliteness not to pay a woman the compliment she wants. Robbin-Steele paid him a reluctant compliment and let a gleam of appreciation flicker in his dead-fish eyes. Brenton laughed at the accent of the compliment which unmistakably was begrudged. The gardener was miffed by this left-handed compliment, but he did not venture to resent the impeachment. The guns having been pointed at the stakes, the Phlegethon immediately returned the compliment with rockets and her pivot-guns. But all were like-minded, and self-gratulation and compliment was the order of the day. But the compliment is like the chariot-wheels o Pharaoh, sae dreigh o drawing, that I canna afford to be blate wi you ony langer. Whatever this might mean, it was, at best, a backhanded compliment to Hartigan. Then he bent over the Countess's hand, and with a passing compliment, made his devoirs and left her. The Cleaver seems also to be in compliment to this profession, as well as the marrowbones and Cleaver. There are some men to whom one instinctively pays the compliment of direct speech. McLeod smiled, if we may so speak, gravely, in acknowledgment of the compliment. Thank you for the compliment, but I don't expect to stick to it all my life. A backhanded compliment of the acutest nature is credited to Lincoln as a lawyer and gentleman. The governor of Moesia must likewise excuse them if they compliment him at a less expense. This exceptive compliment to his skill was not so acceptable to the Doctor, whose passion boiled over at the new indignity. Bull returned the compliment by writing a fantasia on a Fugue by Sweelinck. Be she ever so unnoticeable, she then gains, at least, the compliment of conjecture. Show More Sentences I request, Mr. chignon, you will devote your ambition to your own part of the compliment. She laughed her little laugh of pleasure, and thanked him prettily for the compliment. Robert flushed with gratification at the high compliment conveyed in these words. The compliment was unstudied and pleasant, but she steeled herself for her task. Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing? Every Wellington girl who comes back for the postgraduate 180 course gives me a compliment better than a gift of jewels. The compliment was the greater because the Edwardian had not encouraged him. No cook can withstand such a compliment as that, and ossie cast off his gloom. They are angry also, as I understand, with my mother, for returning his compliment. I'm sure you mean to be odiously rude, but to my taste it's a great compliment. But Mr. Gladstone, while acknowledging the compliment, declined because of his age. Nelsen felt the scared earnestness of the appeal, and the achy shock of the compliment. Children, and women, and weak-headed people, to pride of apparel and trifling compliment. That well-used formula of the town might have been a high-flown compliment at the beginning, but it was sober truth now. Of Wesleyanism, we have little to say, except in compliment of its tolerable consistency. All Outlanders get the full compliment of airbags, three point seatbelts and headrests on all seats. In fact, I recollected too well to be able to pay the expected compliment. Again Mrs Sliderskew chuckled, but modesty forbade her assenting verbally to the compliment. The calm and the naivety of this compliment made Mademoiselle shed tears. Davis, but Winterbourne paid her the compliment of saying to himself that she was not, after all, such a monstrous goose. Show More Sentences Peggotty was no less pleased than his nephew, though his modesty forbade him to claim a personal compliment so vociferously. D'Artagnan, who understood that it was to him this compliment was addressed, approached, assuming a most deprecating air. He loves any thing of the sort, and especially any thing that pays woman a compliment. A compliment to our open-handed and indiscriminate generosity. The old lawyer paid her a smiling compliment on her promptitude. Walter bowed in acknowledgement of the compliment, but did not speak. As he dashed away, to cover his first audacity of compliment, Christie lifted the eyes thus apostrophized to the opposite field. And at the end of his arraignment he attempted an awkward compliment. He bowed his acknowledgment of the compliment to his father, John Carter, Warlord of Mars. Our men of course used to return the compliment from the bash Tabiya. As he went out, however, the conjurer paid him a most bawdy compliment. Sharing his Christmas picks from the Wine Cellar at Bodnant Welsh Food Centre in Conwy he explains why the wines compliment different foods. The chief constable's official mind could conceive no higher compliment. She was all complacence and compliment the rest of her visit. But such a supposition is only a compliment to the skill of the composer. The world welcomed me back, and I returned the compliment by sulking like the recaptured runaway I was at heart. Yet even from this rebuff he managed to deftly extract a compliment. He had endeavored to pay a compliment with a lie, and the prompt repudiation of the lie served only to increase his hero-worship. It is no compliment to the Creator to depreciate His handiwork. The commissioner of the dockyard paid him the compliment, etc. Show More Sentences This is a high compliment, but was not first bestowed on Dorset by Pope. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant, or to General Schuyler, or to General Washington. We could only return the compliment by some fishhooks and sugar. It is no compliment to give her green tea that is weak and washy. Each gentleman addressed her with some hackneyed compliment. I shall compliment Mademoiselle Danglars on her cameo, while the father talks to you. I could pay you no sincerer compliment than to undertake your case. The smuggler raised his head and looked at Genestas by way of acknowledging the compliment. They compliment themselves and push the specter of age aside. For was not this my darling, and was not all this mute wonder and interest and homage a most eloquent tribute and unforced compliment to it? Rachel's striking colour scheme and stencilled walls also add to the uniqueness of her home and compliment her nostalgic style. Captain Jim contrived to give his sunflower compliment the delicacy of a violet, and Anne wore it proudly. Simply spark up a casual convo with your frenemy, give the ex a friendly wave and compliment the teacher's pet on her new 'do. Harry was too much agitated to heed the compliment to his marksmanship. Finally I must compliment Mr. Maugham on his ironical title. This compliment was so apparently directed to Jones, that we should have been sorry had he passed it by unregarded. And at the last and craftiest compliment my own love looked at me through her tears, as though some day or other she might forgive me. Dame Satchell, mollified by his compliment, shrugged her fat shoulders. You pay me a great compliment when you say so,' answered the miller's daughter, curtseying very low. Caruthers bowed his head under the outpour of this compliment. Show More Sentences Mr. Perrot, replied Jessie, smiling, that is a poor compliment! The two discoverers stare at the Smallweeds, who return the compliment. When people who live in the country patronize public amusements, public amusements return the compliment by upsetting the family afterward for days together. Having paid for his entertainment with this agreeable compliment, he relapsed into a hangdog silence until there was no more India ale left, when he said, 'Well, Mrs. Newman returned no answer to this compliment, but looked over Ralph's shoulder for an instant, as if he were strongly disposed to tweak him by the nose. The dedication is to Queen Elizabeth, to whom, indeed, as its heroine, the poem pays perhaps the most splendid compliment ever offered to any human being in verse. Unhappily the road was deserted in the still powerful sunlight, and he was obliged to seek the cover of the woods, with a passing compliment to the parent of his charges. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of compliment? Words that rhyme with compliment What is the past tense of compliment? What is the plural of compliment? What is the adverb for compliment? What is the adjective for compliment? What is the noun for compliment? Translations for compliment Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words complies complied with complied complicity complicitous complicities complimentarily complimentary complimented complimenting compliments compliments of the season 10-letter Words Starting With c co com comp compl compli complim complime complimen