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backhanded compliment - translation to Αγγλικά

EXPRESSION, STATEMENT (OR SOMETIMES BEHAVIOR) WHICH IS DISRESPECTFUL OR SCORNFUL
Insults; Affront; Backhanded compliment; Insulting; Backhanded complement; Putdown; Insulted; Putdowns; Put downs; Backhanded compliments; Asteism; Back-handed compliment; Left handed compliment; Back-handed compliments; Comeback (return insult); Comeback (retort); Slights; Left-handed compliment; Offended
  • Duke Karl]] Insulting the Corpse of [[Klaus Fleming]]'', [[Albert Edelfelt]], 1878. Fleming's wife [[Ebba Stenbock]] on the right.
  • A portion of [[Hippolyte Delaroche]]'s 1836 oil painting ''[[Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers]]''
  • The use of the [[V sign]] as an insult, combined with the upwards swing movement

backhanded compliment         
dubbelzinnig compliment

Ορισμός

affront
(affronts, affronting, affronted)
1.
If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it. (FORMAL)
...an incident which particularly affronted Kasparov.
VERB: V n
affronted
He pretended to be affronted, but inwardly he was pleased...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
2.
If something is an affront to you, it is an obvious insult to you.
It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this...
= insult
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N to n

Βικιπαίδεια

Insult

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental. An insult may be factual, but at the same time pejorative, such as the word "inbred".

Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για backhanded compliment
1. The Arsenal manager certainly seemed to have something on his mind, judging by a bizarre backhanded compliment for Crouch.
2. Don‘t say: "How could someone as perfect as you still be single?" Why: A statement like this comes off as a backhanded compliment.
3. While he pays a backhanded compliment to Tony Blair for recognising the potency of Thatcherism, he savages Labour for squandering her legacy.
4. For his part, Reid offered a hat–in–hand apology for casting aspersions on the motives of "my friend from Pennsylvania." As evidence of his high esteem for Specter, Reid offered a distinctly senatorial –– if backhanded –– compliment.
5. Gaddafi, referring to Rice as "Leezza," paid Rice a backhanded compliment last year in an interview with Al–Jazeera television, claiming he did not go to Arab summits because, behind the scenes, Rice is actually in control of the Arab world.