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                           Phrase(s): backhanded compliment [and] left-handed compliment  an unintended or ambiguous compliment.  •  Backhanded compliments are the only kind he ever gives!  •  And I think his left-handed compliments are all given by accident, too!
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs