left-handed compliment

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left-handed compliment 的定义

  1. 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

n. 名词 noun

damning with faint praise

left-handed compliment 的近义词 9

更多left-handed compliment例句

  1. Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
  2. Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
  3. Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.
  4. Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
  5. The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
  6. What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
  7. She is quite true, but not wise, and your left hand must not know what your right hand is doing.
  8. The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
  9. She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.
  10. Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.