a backhanded compliment

a ˌbackhanded ˈcompliment(NAmE alsoˌleft-handed ˈcompliment)a remark that seems to express admiration but could also be understood as an insult隐含讥讽的恭维

• inexperienced
• world's oldest profession
• needle biopsy
• booster pressure
• balbriggan
• electrostatic printer
• standard test tone
• wamble
• bursas
• bakeapples
• recombinant dnas
• take issue with sb (about/on/over sth)
• have an ear/an eye/a nose for
• signaller
• fold one's arms
• saccharose
• dichotically
• blurriness
• Austen, Jane
• clear the atmosphere
• jigglings
• ill fames
• be sucked in
• ring auger
• confederate jasmines
• have designs on
• ophiophagous
• rpt.
• exposs
• a fortiori
• have/lack the courage of your convictions
• stewardae
• e.t.
• duodena
• hurry up the cakes
• Breuil,Abbe Henri
• tactical range
• Third Republic
• laddic
• in the rear of
• soot blower
• carry the mail
• dolomitise
• vitamin gs
• rumbustiously
• lunchy
• intumesces
• carry ... forward
• ginglymi
• dorsolateral
• electronic ignition
• industrialize
• Akela
• flannelmouthed
• ketamines
• inyalas
• tautomerizing
• Anti-Corn Law League
• hitchhikes
• bialy
• vocoid
• toastmasters
• bail someone/thing out
• downhearted
• foil
• rondo
• ascriptive
• play the man
• hepatitis B antigen
• at soonest
• Albigensian
• blind-stamping
• feel dubious of
• inequation
• telephone line
• not able to hit a barn door
• flushnesses
• hirudineans
• tonuses
• out of keeping with
• credit letter
• betroth oneself to
• Pythagoras
• anchorlike
• dikegrave
• let someone down easy
• a square meal
• wooden nickel
• bestowal
• secondary shaft
• ensimatic geosyncline
• boldly
• formols
• make a noise
• recordholder
• orebodies
• gelatin liquefaction
• Lowell, Amy
• consignation
• Wex.