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Originally Posted by montsnmags
A left-handed, or backhanded, compliment, is when an insult is couched or hidden within a compliment.
Examples might be something like...
(...)
"That beanie really suits you, Adrian".
Cheers,
Marc
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i'm not sure if it's quite the same, but we do have the expression "faux compliment" which means a false compliment... it seems to me there is another expression as well, it's tickling my mind, but i can't think of it right now...