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Что (кто) такое backhanded compliment - определение

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

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

Insult

·vi To leap or jump.

II. Insult ·vt The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

III. Insult ·vt To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

IV. Insult ·vi To behave with insolence; to Exult.

V. Insult ·vt Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an Indignity.

VI. Insult ·vt To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to Abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

Affront

·noun An encounter either friendly or hostile.

II. Affront ·noun An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

III. Affront ·vt To Front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

IV. Affront ·vt To face in defiance; to Confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

V. Affront ·noun Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

VI. Affront ·vt To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

Википедия

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".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult

Примеры употребления для 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.