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Verbi
- (idiomatic) To provide praise that is minimal or inconsequential, implying that such praise is the best that could be said.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: damn, with, faint, praise
Samankaltaisia sanoja
- damn tootin'
- damn tooting
- damn up
- damn well
- damn Yankee
- damn Yankees
- damn you
- damn you all to hell
- damned with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
- damning with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
- damns with faint praise -> damn with faint praise
- faint
- faint object camera
- faint of heart
- faint or pass out
- faint-hearted
- faint-hearted man
- faint-hearteder
- feel faint
- in a faint
- praise with faint damns
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.”