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.