back-handed compliment

Noun

Meaning

back-handed compliment (plural back-handed compliments)

Alternative spelling of backhanded compliment

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment. Margaret Cho

Close letter words and terms

back-geared back-hand back-handed back-handedly back-handedness back-hander