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Example sentences for: compliment

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It's true that they were smelly and that the sight of poverty and desperation are not pleasant, and they all told the same self-serving lies for my benefit, and could never remember no matter how many times they were told that white women don't think it's a compliment to be told they have big legs, and they were noisy, although they would pipe down if you cared to go out at three in the morning to ask, which the tourists sure won't.
All very magisterial--but, at the daunting two-volume length of 1,900 pages, something of a backhanded compliment.
The fact that Pundit Central found himself without a clear sense of the article's focus or length after sitting through eight hours of TV commentary is no compliment to the opinion mafia.
As for Andrew Sullivan's and Katha Pollitt's comments ("The Breakfast Table"), given Sullivan's tenure at TNR , including but not limited to his brilliant editing there of Stephen Glass, I will take his comments as a compliment.
Our quoted compliment employs the implicit tokenism of the definite article--"the woman"--the condescension of "girl," the dubious virtue of "talented," suggesting that her abilities were something she was born with, not something she earned.