- 看过 left-handed compliment 的人也看了 :
- aspersion
- home truth
- insult
- slap in the face
- slight
- snub
left-handed compliment 的定义
- A compliment with two meanings, one of which is unflattering to the receiver: “The senator said that her opponent was quite competent for someone so inexperienced; you hear nothing but left-handed compliments in these debates.”
left-handed compliment 近义词
damning with faint praise
left-handed compliment 的近义词 9 个
- aspersion
- back-handed compliment
- home truth
- insult
- no compliment
- slap in the face
- slight
- snub
- uncomplimentary remark
更多left-handed compliment例句
- Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
- Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
- Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
- Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
- The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
- What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
- She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
- The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
- She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
- Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.