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Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: damn, with, faint, praise
Samankaltaisia sanoja
- damn skippy
- damn straight
- damn the torpedoes
- damn well
- damn Yankee
- damn Yankees
- damn you
- damn your eyes
- damned with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
- damning with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
- damns with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (idiomatic) To provide praise that is so minimal or inconsequential as to suggest criticism or a negative regard for the object.
Esimerkit
- Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
- And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
- The patronizing manner in which the hero of Nashville is damned with faint praise would amuse were it not so exasperating.
- Four of them returned it with a cold, printed note of rejection; one of them “damned with faint praise.” They wrote that “Our readers report that they find some merit in your story, but not enough to warrant its acceptance.”
- And then, finally, when W. could avoid it no longer, he mentioned Vice, damning with faint praise: “Dick Cheney’s advice was consistent and strong.”