Words similar to compliment

Example sentences for: compliment

How can you use “compliment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In effect, the name was an ironic compliment, a friendly jest passed from one scruffy and uncouth people (the traders themselves were hardly known for their dainty manicures and designer coiffures) to another.
And he pays his readers the ultimate compliment of writing as though he knows they're capable of getting his erudite cosmic jokes.
I am not as sanguine as Safire, and believe that using the word will always carry some slight risk: It may be wielded as a slur and received as a compliment, or vice versa.
Sea Sports at the Nassau Marriott Resort on Cable Beach has a full compliment of water-sport equipment for rent (Tel.
This compliment threatens to become for black women what "articulate" is for black men such as Vernon Jordan.